Remote Anti-Bot Engineer: Master Evasion & Analysis

SearchApi, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote Work

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn fast

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking a highly skilled engineer to advance anti-bot evasion. You will research, reverse engineer, and bypass sophisticated bot detection while improving internal tooling and stealth configurations. You’ll analyze traffic, document findings, and push the boundaries of web scraping capabilities.

Remote role with ownership to define the work, collaborate with a lean team, and ship real products at scale for Fortune 500 and startup customers.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.
• 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 (Wireshark, Burp Suite, mitmproxy, or similar).
• TLS and protocol fingerprinting experience (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 over QUIC).
• WebRTC fingerprinting and evasion.
• Chromium or Firefox source code familiarity.
• 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 evasion techniques.
• Stay ahead of latest bot-detection developments.
• Document findings and share knowledge with the team.

Education

BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field

Tools

Playwright

Puppeteer

Selenium

Wireshark

Burp Suite

mitmproxy

Proxyman

AWS

Job description

SearchApi is seeking a highly skilled engineer to advance anti-bot evasion. You will research, reverse engineer, and bypass sophisticated bot detection while improving internal tooling and stealth configurations. You’ll analyze traffic, document findings, and push the boundaries of web scraping capabilities.

Remote role with ownership to define the work, collaborate with a lean team, and ship real products at scale for Fortune 500 and startup customers.