Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot
Summary
Backend infrastructure engineer on a B2B web data extraction SaaS team, owning proxy rotation, IP/session management, browser/TLS fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA-solving infrastructure to keep large-scale scraping reliable against anti-bot defenses. Built with Go/Python, networking fundamentals, and Prometheus/Grafana observability.
About the Role
Join the infrastructure team at a B2B web data extraction SaaS company, building systems that keep high-volume extraction reliable against websites with sophisticated anti-automation defenses. You will own production infrastructure end to end and help ensure web data remains accessible to AI applications.
What You'll Do
Architect and operate proxy rotation, IP and session management, and isolated egress infrastructure at scale.
Improve extraction success rates against aggressive anti-bot and anti-scraping defenses.
Build and maintain browser and TLS fingerprint management, along with CAPTCHA and challenge-solving infrastructure.
Monitor proxy-layer health and optimize its cost and operational efficiency.
Diagnose intermittent failures across the stack and deliver lasting production fixes.
What We're Looking For
More than 3 years of experience in adversarial web infrastructure, proxy-layer engineering, or web data extraction, including recent hands-on production work.
Experience operating proxy rotation, IP and session management, egress isolation, and proxy economics for third-party web extraction.
Production experience bypassing major anti-bot defenses and owning extraction success-rate metrics, as well as browser or TLS fingerprinting and CAPTCHA or challenge handling.
Proficiency with Go and/or Python, plus networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP/2, connection pooling, and proxy orchestration.
Experience owning production systems end to end, including on-call responsibilities and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
A practical, reliability-focused approach to complex adversarial systems, with a bias toward shipping, measuring, and iterating.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $235,000 to $260,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California.
Skills
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