Anti-Bot Engineer
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COMPENSATION
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Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote worldwide
- Anti-bot evasion focus
- Playwright + Puppeteer
- TLS & QUIC analysis
- Equity and profit share
Join a lean, bootstrapped team building a real-time SERP API that serves Fortune 500 companies. You will tackle the hardest challenges in web scraping by reverse engineering bot detection systems like Cloudflare and Akamai.
This position requires self-direction and a hacker mindset. You will define your own workflow based on current detection gaps, working with browser fingerprinting and protocol analysis to maintain reliable data access at scale.
What you'll do
- Research and implement techniques to bypass anti-bot systems
- Reverse engineer detection methods for Cloudflare, Akamai, and others
- Analyze browser fingerprinting vectors like canvas and WebGL
- Debug TLS and protocol fingerprinting including JA3 and QUIC
- Optimize headless browser configurations for stealth operations
- Build internal tools to test and validate evasion strategies
- Document findings and share knowledge with the engineering team
What you'll need
- Deep experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium internals
- Proven ability to bypass major anti-bot protections
- Strong understanding of browser fingerprinting and spoofing
- Proficiency in network traffic analysis using Wireshark or Burp Suite
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- BSc or higher in Computer Science or equivalent field
- Self-directed worker who thrives in ambiguous environments
Nice to have
- Experience with TLS fingerprinting such as JA3 and JA4
- Familiarity with Chromium or Firefox source code
- Knowledge of WebRTC fingerprinting and evasion
- Experience handling millions of requests at scale
- Running stable headless browsers in containers
- Contributions to open-source evasion tools
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails for internal tooling
Stack
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Ruby
- Node.js
- Python
- AWS
- Wireshark
- Burp Suite
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Work from anywhere globally
- Bootstrapped and profitable company
- Fast shipping cycle with CI/CD
What you get
- Equity share in the company
- Profit sharing program
- Annual team retreats
- Use of AI tools like Cursor and Claude
Hiring process
- 45-minute interview call
- Take-home challenge on evasion
- 60-minute technical interview
- 30-minute team meeting
- Reference check and offer