Anti-Bot Engineer - SearchApi

About 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. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups who need reliable search data at scale.

We're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.

🎯 Why Join Us?

• The hardest problems. Anti-bot systems evolve constantly. You'll be at the cutting edge of evasion techniques.
• Real impact. When you break through a protection, thousands of customers benefit immediately.
• Deep technical work. This isn't surface-level scraping. It's fingerprinting, TLS, CDP internals, browser behavior analysis.
• Fortune 500 Customers. Our API powers production workloads, not just experiments.
• Bootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.

💻 Tech Stack

• Playwright, Puppeteer, raw CDP
• Ruby, Node.js, or Python for tooling
• Browser internals (Chromium, Firefox)
• Network analysis tools (Wireshark, Burp Suite, Proxyman)
• AWS infrastructure
• Ruby on Rails familiarity is a plus (we use it for internal tools)

💪 What You'll Do

• Research and implement anti-bot evasion techniques.
• Reverse engineer bot detection systems, understanding how they work to bypass them.
• Work with browser fingerprinting: canvas, WebGL, audio, fonts, navigator properties, and more.
• Debug TLS and protocol fingerprinting (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 over QUIC, header order and casing).
• 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.

✨ About You

• Obsessed with evasion. You've spent your own time trying to bypass protections and find it fun.
• Hacker mindset. You enjoy reverse engineering and figuring out how systems work.
• Deep technical skills. Browser internals, networking, fingerprinting.
• Persistent. You don't give up when something doesn't work; you try another approach.
• Great writer. You document your findings clearly.
• Self-directed. You find the next problem to solve.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.

Required Experience:

• 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).

🎁 What You Get

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