Remote Anti-Bot Engineer – Evasion & Network Analysis

SearchApi, LLC; Georgia; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn fast: work on hard problems

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking engineers to tackle anti-bot evasion in a fully remote role. You will work on the hardest technical challenges in real-time SERP data extraction, building tools to bypass protections and improve stealth across browsers.

Join a lean, bootstrapped team delivering data at scale for Fortune 500 customers. You'll analyze network traffic, reverse engineer bot-detection methods, and contribute to internal tooling.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium internals.
• Experience bypassing at least one major anti-bot system (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, etc.).
• Network traffic analysis with common tooling.
• TLS and protocol fingerprinting (JA3/JA4, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 over QUIC).
• WebRTC fingerprinting and evasion.
• Familiarity with Chromium or Firefox source code.
• Experience at scale handling millions of requests.
• Contributions to open-source evasion tools.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement anti-bot evasion techniques.
• Reverse engineer bot detection systems and bypass them.
• Debug TLS and protocol fingerprinting and push the QUIC frontier.
• 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 latest developments in bot detection.
• Document findings and share knowledge with the team.

Skills

Playwright Puppeteer Selenium interna

Anti-bot evasion

Network traffic analysis

TLS/JA3/JA4 fingerprinting

WebRTC fingerprinting evasion

Chromium/Firefox source

Scale handling millions of requests

Open-source evasion tools

Education

BSc or higher in CS or equivalent

Tools

Wireshark

Burp Suite

mitmproxy

Chrome/Chromium source familiarity

Job description

SearchApi is seeking engineers to tackle anti-bot evasion in a fully remote role. You will work on the hardest technical challenges in real-time SERP data extraction, building tools to bypass protections and improve stealth across browsers.

Join a lean, bootstrapped team delivering data at scale for Fortune 500 customers. You'll analyze network traffic, reverse engineer bot-detection methods, and contribute to internal tooling.