Anti-Bot EngineerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

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

• 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.
• You define the work. We don't have a task list for this role. You tell us what you'll work on based on what's broken, what's getting detected, and where you see opportunities. This is how much control you'll have.

About the position

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.

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).