Remote Anti-Bot Engineer: Evasion, Equity

pWe 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.brstrongAbout SearchApibr/strongSearchApi 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.brWe're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.brstrong Why Join Us?br/strongulliThe hardest problems. Anti-bot systems evolve constantly. You'll be at the cutting edge of evasion techniques. /liliReal impact. When you break through a protection, thousands of customers benefit immediately. /liliDeep technical work. This isn't surface-level scraping. It's fingerprinting, TLS, CDP internals, browser behavior analysis. /liliFortune 500 Customers. Our API powers production workloads, not just experiments. /liliBootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.br/li /ulWe are searching for grinders who take ownership and move fast. You'll work on the hardest technical challenges in web scraping.brstrong Tech Stackbr/strongulliPlaywright, Puppeteer, raw CDP /liliRuby, Node.js, or Python for tooling /liliBrowser internals (Chromium, Firefox) /liliNetwork analysis tools (Wireshark, Burp Suite, Proxyman) /liliAWS infrastructure /liliRuby on Rails familiarity is a plus (we use it for internal tools)br/li /ulWe use Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day with CI/CD.brstrong🤖 You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control Youbr/strongWe 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.brstrong

What You'll Do
br/strongulliResearch and implement anti-bot evasion techniques. /liliReverse engineer bot detection systems. Understand how they work, then bypass them. /liliWork with browser fingerprinting: canvas, WebGL, audio, fonts, navigator properties, and more. /liliDebug TLS and protocol fingerprinting (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 over QUIC, header order and casing), and push the QUIC frontier where most detection and most scrapers haven't caught up yet. /liliOptimize Playwright/Puppeteer configurations for stealth. /liliAnalyze network traffic to understand detection mechanisms. /liliBuild internal tools for testing and validating evasion techniques. /liliStay ahead of the latest developments in bot detection. /liliDocument findings and share knowledge with the team.br/li /ulstrongYou define the work. /strong We don't have a task list for this role. You tell us what you'll work on based on what's broken, what's getting detected, and where you see opportunities. This is how much control you'll have.brstrong The Hard Partsbr/strongThis role is not for everyone. Here's what makes it hard:brulliCat and mouse game. What works today might not work tomorrow. You need to constantly adapt. /liliDeep debugging. Sometimes you'll spend days figuring out why a single request gets blocked. /liliAmbiguity. Anti-bot systems don't publish their detection methods. You reverse engineer and experiment. /liliPressure. When a major protection changes and customers are affected, you need to fix it fast. /liliLonely expertise. Few people understand this domain deeply. You'll often be figuring things out alone.br/li /ulIf you want clear specifications and predictable work, this isn't for you.brstrong✨ About Youbr/strongulliObsessed with evasion. You've spent your own time trying to bypass protections. You find it fun. /liliHacker mindset. You enjoy reverse engineering and figuring out how systems work. /liliDeep technical skills. Browser internals, networking, fingerprinting. Not surface-level knowledge. /liliPersistent. You don't give up when something doesn't work. You try another approach. /liliGreat writer. You document your findings clearly so others can learn. /liliSelf-directed. You don't need someone to assign tasks. You find the next problem to solve. /liliFluent in English, written and spoken. /liliBSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field.br/li /ulstrongRequired

experience:
br/strongulliDeep experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium internals. /liliUnderstanding of browser fingerprinting techniques and how to spoof them. /liliExperience bypassing at least one major anti-bot system (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, etc.). /liliNetwork traffic analysis (Wireshark, Burp Suite, mitmproxy, or similar).br/li /ulstrongWe're especially looking for:br/strongulliTLS and protocol fingerprinting experience (JA3, JA4, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 over QUIC). /liliWebRTC fing