Platform Engineer - Content Protection

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global publisher providing research content, platforms, and technology solutions for researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals.

What you will do

• Build, operate, and improve WAF signals, policies, and rules to detect and mitigate automated scraping, content extraction, and abusive traffic.
• Own the lifecycle of traffic-protection controls, including design, testing, deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
• Implement rate limiting, bot management, and traffic-shaping strategies while protecting legitimate discoverability, accessibility, and customer experience.
• Lead detection, response, mitigation, and recovery activities for scraping, automated abuse, enumeration, and traffic-related incidents.
• Maintain operational playbooks and runbooks and establish repeatable workflows for traffic anomaly detection and response.
• Collaborate with Fastly MSS, Data, SEO, Product, Platform Engineering, and security stakeholders on protection controls and future AI-agent access models.

Requirements

• Hands-on WAF engineering experience, ideally with Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences) or an equivalent platform.
• Experience implementing bot management, rate limiting, traffic management, and responding to scraping, DDoS, or automated-abuse incidents.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, TLS, CDN, and edge technologies.
• Ability to balance security, operational, and business considerations when designing controls.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Fastly, Signal Sciences, edge compute, entitlement, identity, or access-management systems.
• Experience working with security operations or managed security services teams.
• Understanding of SEO, crawler behaviour, and digital discoverability ecosystems.
• Experience in academic publishing, research platforms, or content-rich digital businesses.
• Experience with AI, agentic, or machine-access use cases.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on content protection for research platforms used by researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals.
• Collaborate across platform engineering, product, SEO, analytics, and managed security services functions.
• Contribute to inclusion and accessibility initiatives supporting people with disabilities, neurodivergence, or chronic conditions.