Platform Engineer - Content Protection

About the role

Springer Nature is seeking a Platform Engineer focused on content protection. The role sits in the Off‑platform Discovery and Content Protection team and is responsible for turning analytical insight and protection strategy into operational controls that safeguard content while maximising discoverability.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate traffic‑management and content‑protection controls, including WAF signals, policies and rules.
• Build, test, deploy, tune and retire automated‑scraping detection and mitigation controls.
• Implement rate‑limiting, bot‑management and traffic‑shaping strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure protection measures do not negatively impact legitimate user experience or platform performance.
• Translate analytical signals into enforceable controls and measurable outcomes.
• Lead incident response for scraping, automated abuse, enumeration and traffic‑related events.
• Maintain and update operational playbooks, runbooks and staged rollout procedures.
• Monitor effectiveness of controls and continuously improve protection capabilities.

Required profile

• Experience designing and operating security controls for large‑scale platforms.
• Ability to work closely with cross‑functional teams such as Data Analysts, Product Managers, Managed Security Services, SEO and Platform Engineering.
• Strong problem‑solving skills to evolve defenses against emerging AI‑driven and agentic technologies.

Required skills

• Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management.
• Bot‑management solutions.
• Rate‑limiting and traffic‑shaping techniques.
• Incident response and remediation processes.
• Monitoring and analytics for automated traffic detection.