Apify

Web Automation Engineer (Anti-Scraping)

Responsibilities

• To automate human activities on the web and proceed with our mission, we need robots that behave and act like real users, and this is where we need your help!
• You will be part of one of our 5 product teams—the team that works on Apify’s open-source tooling loved by the community.
• The team is led by Martin Adamek, co-author, and maintainer of Apify’s Crawlee and his own MikroORM framework.
• You will research existing anti-scraping services and implement new open-source libraries or internal services to overcome them by utilizing various proxy services, browser fingerprinting methods, human-like browser interaction, session management, and others.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience with Node.js/TypeScript or Python (if you are open to learning TypeScript too)
• Prior experience in web scraping or web automation
• Ability to solve unique, unprecedented challenges
• Understanding of how the web works, from HTTP protocol up to modern browser APIs to draw an SVG
• Experience in open-source development is a plus
• Experiment-driven and collaborative mindset
• Good communication skills in English

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