Web Automation Engineer

• Reverse engineer detection: Research how modern websites detect and challenge automated traffic, and take apart those mechanisms and challenge flows
• Find the signals: Identify the browser, device, network, and behavioral signals that separate automated access from human traffic
• Replicate and harden: Reproduce those signals synthetically in authorized test environments to validate and harden our approaches
• Turn research into production: Build the automation, diagnostic, and monitoring tools that keep scrape reliability high as the web shifts
• Own scrape success rate: Measure it, explain regressions, and ship the fixes
• Ship fleet-wide: Work with platform engineers to roll improvements out across the crawling fleet at scale

Experience: 3+ years building browser automation, web infrastructure, or systems-level software

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. We’re not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada, we’ll consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub., * Languages: Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python, and comfortable picking up whatever a problem demands

• Browser internals: Real understanding of rendering, JS engines, headless automation (CDP, Playwright, Puppeteer), and where automated browsers differ from real ones
• Network fundamentals: Solid grasp of HTTP/TLS, proxies, and browser and device fingerprinting
• Reverse-engineering instincts: You can read minified, obfuscated code and figure out what it’s actually checking
• Research with a shipping habit: You go deep on how something works, then land the fix in production, not just a writeup
• Nice to have: Deobfuscating JavaScript and VM-based obfuscation, network-level fingerprinting (TLS/HTTP2 signatures, JA3/JA4), running large browser or proxy fleets in production, or prior work at a scraping, web data, security research, or automation company, * Narrow lane: Someone who wants to specialize narrowly and hand off everything else
• Process first: Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

• Salary that makes sense: $235,000-$260,000 USD/year (SF) / $217,000-$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto), based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what you’re helping build
• Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge
• Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
• Wellness stipend: $100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
• Team offsites: A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
• Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

AVAILABLE TO US-BASED FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

• Full coverage, no red tape: Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works
• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life’s curveballs
• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you
• Mental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
• Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner
• EAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian
• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
• Pre-tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet