Staff Application Security Engineer DDoS
Faire Wholesale Inc.
Protect Faire's marketplace from application-layer DDoS and scraping through edge controls, coding, and incident response. This hybrid role shapes security strategy.
The Staff Security Engineer, Bot and Traffic Defence, will own a new technical domain within Faire Engineering. You will develop controls that withstand changing adversaries and protect legitimate buyers. Success requires collaboration across Security, Platform, service teams, and Anti-Abuse.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop end-to-end application-layer DDoS defence strategy
- Tune edge security controls against evolving adversaries
- Measure detection precision, recall, and false-positive tolerance
- Create runbooks, paging paths, and attack observability
- Enable teams with secure defaults and playbooks
Requirements:
- Hands-on Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, or AWS experience
- Operational experience defending consumer traffic against scraping
- Practical knowledge of bot detection signal trade-offs
- Experience owning live traffic attack response
- Clear communication with engineers and executives
Use application security, quantitative detection, and operational judgment to strengthen Faire's defences against automated traffic attacks.
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