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 strategyAuthor WAF rules, rate limits, and challenge mechanismsBuild bot and trust signals for safer enforcementDesign distributed layer 7 rate limitingLead incident reviews and establish ownership modelsRequirements:
Production ownership of CDN or edge security platformsExperience defending high-traffic sites against scraping and DDoSUnderstanding of TLS, behavioural, and attestation signalsExperience designing distributed layer 7 rate limitingFluency with code, infrastructure as code, and cloud environmentsBring security engineering, traffic analysis, and incident leadership to Faire's bot defence and scalable platform controls.