Lead bot and traffic defence at Faire with WAF, rate limiting, and detection expertise in a hybrid engineering setting. Own a critical security domain.

As Staff Security Engineer, Bot and Traffic Defence, you will set technical direction for automated traffic protection. You will build scalable controls and signals across edge security, detection, and scoring. The work spans Security, Platform, service teams, and Anti-Abuse.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own bot, scraping, and application-layer DDoS strategy
- Author WAF rules, rate limits, and challenge mechanisms
- Build bot and trust signals for safer enforcement
- Design distributed layer 7 rate limiting
- Lead incident reviews and establish ownership models

Requirements:

- Production ownership of CDN or edge security platforms
- Experience defending high-traffic sites against scraping and DDoS
- Understanding of TLS, HTTP, behavioural, and attestation signals
- Experience designing distributed layer 7 rate limiting
- Fluency with code, infrastructure as code, and cloud environments

Bring security engineering, traffic analysis, and incident leadership to Faire's bot defence and scalable platform controls.

📌 Staff Bot Traffic Security Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Faire Wholesale
📍 Toronto