Platform Engineer - Content Protection

Job summary

The Platform Engineer - Content Protection at Spr*** is responsible for implementing and managing traffic management and content protection controls to maximize discoverability while safeguarding content.

Qualifications

• Experience with Fastly, Signal Sciences, or similar technologies
• Experience with security operations or managed security services teams
• Experience with identity or access-management systems
• Understanding of SEO and digital discoverability ecosystems
• Experience in academic publishing or content-rich digital businesses
• Experience with AI and machine-access use cases

Responsibilities

• Build and improve WAF signals, policies, and rules to mitigate automated scraping and abusive traffic
• Own lifecycle of traffic protection controls including design, testing, and deployment
• Implement rate-limiting and bot-management strategies aligned to business objectives
• Ensure protection controls do not negatively impact discoverability or customer experience
• Turn analytical signals into practical enforcement controls
• Lead response activities for scraping and traffic-related incidents
• Maintain operational playbooks for detection and recovery
• Implement controls with staged rollout approaches
• Monitor effectiveness of controls and improve protection capabilities
• Manage technical relationship with Fastly MSS and content protection tooling
• Operationalize Fastly recommendations and outputs
• Coordinate changes with stakeholders and communicate impacts
• Partner with Data Analyst to validate detection signals
• Support SEO teams to ensure legitimate crawlers are supported
• Assist Product and Platform teams with traffic-aware decisions
• Define policies for automated access management
• Contribute to managing AI agents and emerging content consumption models

Skills

Relocation