Platform Engineer – Content Protection

About the role

The Platform Engineer – Content Protection will design, implement and operate traffic‑management and content‑protection controls for Springer Nature’s digital platforms. Working with data analysts, product managers, security services and engineering teams, you will safeguard content while maximising discoverability for legitimate users.

Key responsibilities

• Build, operate and continuously improve Web Application Firewall (WAF) signals, policies and rules to detect and mitigate automated scraping and abusive traffic.
• Own the full lifecycle of traffic‑protection controls – design, testing, deployment, tuning, validation and retirement.
• Implement rate‑limiting, bot‑management and traffic‑shaping strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure protection measures do not negatively impact legitimate discoverability, accessibility or user experience.
• Translate analytical signals and intelligence into practical enforcement controls and measurable outcomes.
• Lead incident response for scraping, automated abuse and traffic‑related events, maintaining playbooks and runbooks.
• Monitor effectiveness of controls and continuously improve protection capabilities.

Required profile

• Proven experience with web security controls, especially WAF configuration and management.
• Strong analytical mindset to turn data insights into operational security measures.
• Ability to collaborate across product, security, SEO and engineering teams.
• Experience leading incident response and maintaining operational documentation.

Required skills

• Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and tuning
• Bot‑management solutions
• Rate‑limiting and traffic‑shaping techniques
• Security incident response and playbook development