Senior Browser Automation Engineer — Scale & Autonomy

Horizon3

United States

Hybrid

USD 169,000 - 208,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Horizon3.ai is building an autonomous, black-box web app pentester. You’ll own the browser-driven crawler, tackle SPA timing and auth flows, and push a scalable, deterministic automation stack that maps to production customer environments.

Join a remote-friendly, innovative team with opportunities to work across large enterprise and government environments, emphasizing reliability and deep security expertise.

Qualifications

  • Production software experience with browser automation against real web apps.
  • Strong TypeScript / Node.js skills inside headless-browser stacks.
  • Proven ability to tame flaky, JS-heavy apps and SPA timing issues.
  • Experience with distributed, concurrent systems and scalable browser sessions.
  • Bias toward determinism, debuggability, and selective use of LLMs.

Responsibilities

  • Own and harden the browser automation and crawling engine used in autonomous pentests.
  • Advance crawling with Playwright and Stagehand in complex web apps.
  • Handle modern web app challenges: SPA routing, auth, file uploads, WebSocket traffic.
  • Extend login/auth capabilities for unattended, production-safe runs.
  • Improve crawl coverage, dedupe, queueing, and state management.
  • Collaborate with attackers-engineers to map output into the app graph.

Skills

Browser automation
TypeScript / Node.js
SPA timing handling
Distributed systems
Determinism & debugging
Ownership mindset

Tools

Playwright
Puppeteer
Selenium

Job description

Horizon3.ai is building an autonomous, black-box web app pentester. You’ll own the browser-driven crawler, tackle SPA timing and auth flows, and push a scalable, deterministic automation stack that maps to production customer environments.

Join a remote-friendly, innovative team with opportunities to work across large enterprise and government environments, emphasizing reliability and deep security expertise.

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