Anti bot engineer

We are looking for an engineer obsessed with breaking through anti-bot systems. Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX. If you've spent hours analyzing fingerprinting techniques, debugging TLS handshakes, and figuring out why your headless browser gets detected, this role is for you.

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.

We are searching for grinders who take ownership and move fast. You'll work on the hardest technical challenges in web scraping.

💻 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)

We use Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day with CI/CD.

🤖 You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control You

We ship faster because we use AI tools aggressively. Cursor and Claude. But you own the output. If you can't evaluate what AI produces, you're not ready for this role.

💪 What You'll