Lead bot defence at Faire with edge security and distributed rate limiting in a hybrid engineering role. Protect a global wholesale marketplace from evolving automated traffic.
As Staff Security Engineer, Bot and Traffic Defence, you will set technical direction for scraping, credential abuse, and application-layer DDoS. You will build scalable controls, signals, tooling, and ownership across Security, Platform, service teams, and Anti-Abuse. The work spans WAF rules, bot detection, incident response, and measurable risk decisions.
Key Responsibilities: Own the bot and traffic defence strategy and roadmap
Author WAF rules, rate limits, and challenge mechanisms
Build bot and trust signals with measurable precision
Design distributed layer seven rate limiting
Lead post-incident reviews and establish durable ownership
Requirements: Production ownership of CDN or edge security platforms
Experience defending high-traffic sites against scraping and DDoS
Understanding of fingerprinting, behavioural signals, and challenges
Experience with infrastructure as code and cloud environments
Technical direction and cross-team ownership experience
Apply staff-level security engineering expertise across edge controls, detection, rate limiting, and incident response at Faire.