Proxy network engineer

We are looking for an engineer who can build proxy infrastructure from scratch. Not configure existing solutions. Build. Residential networks, ISP proxies, rotation systems, session management. If you understand the difference between a high-level integration and writing a reverse proxy yourself, 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?

Build from scratch. Not glue existing tools together. Design and implement proxy infrastructure.

Greenfield project. You'll shape the architecture from day one. No legacy to work around.

Deep technical work. Networking, protocols, performance optimization. The hard stuff.

Real scale. Billions of requests. Your infrastructure needs to handle it.

Bootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.

We are searching for someone who can build high-quality proxy infrastructure. We use existing solutions today. We want someone who understands their limitations and can build something better.

💻 Tech Stack

Low-level networking (TCP/UDP, sockets, connection handling)

HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 protocols

HTTP/2, HTTP/3

Reverse proxy implementation (not just nginx/squid configuration)

Linux networking stack

Cloud infrastructure (provider TBD based on IP policies and networking speed)

Terraform is a plus (for autoprovisioning)

We use Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub, and Slack daily.

🤖 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 p