Remote (Global)

SearchApi is hiring an Anti-Bot Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Research and implement anti-bot evasion techniques.
  • Reverse engineer bot detection systems. Understand how they work, then bypass them.
  • Work with browser fingerprinting: canvas, WebGL, audio, fonts, navigator properties, and more.
  • Debug TLS fingerprinting (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2 fingerprints).
  • Optimize Playwright/Puppeteer configurations for stealth.
  • Analyze network traffic to understand detection mechanisms.
  • Build internal tools for testing and validating evasion techniques.
  • Stay ahead of the latest developments in bot detection.
  • Document findings and share knowledge with the team.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium internals.
  • Understanding of browser fingerprinting techniques and how to spoof them.
  • Experience bypassing at least one major anti-bot system (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, etc.).
  • Network traffic analysis (Wireshark, Burp Suite, mitmproxy, or similar).
  • BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.

Nice to Have

  • TLS fingerprinting experience (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2).
  • WebRTC fingerprinting and evasion.
  • Chromium or Firefox source code familiarity.
  • Experience at scale handling millions of requests.
  • Contributions to open-source evasion tools.

Benefits

  • Fully Remote. Work from anywhere.
  • Equity share. Own a piece of what you're building.
  • Profit sharing. When we win, you win.
  • Learn fast. Work on some of the hardest problems in web scraping.
  • Annual team retreats (last one in Spain).

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Required Skills
Playwright
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SearchApi
SearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. The company powers production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and startups needing reliable search data at scale.
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Posted 3 months ago