Browser Patching Engineer

Oxylabs Io — Poland · Posted ~1 day ago

Remote

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join a globally distributed engineering team working on large-scale web data infrastructure. You will tackle challenging browser-related engineering problems and help maintain highly mature systems processing massive amounts of traffic and service requests. The role offers exposure to sophisticated distributed infrastructure and a technically diverse environment.

Highlights

Work on large-scale web data infrastructure, solve complex engineering challenges, and contribute to systems operating at very high traffic and request volumes in a globally distributed environment.

Description

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. What’s in store for you: You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers: 6PB+ Ceph storage 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems 300k+ service requests/sec processed 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed The team waiting for you: We run one of the most advanced and largest scraping and parsing products in the world. We serve thousands of requests per second with a very high success rate. Our scrapers and parsers are used by leading e-commerce, market intelligence, and AI industry players making the work challenging and truly global. The team is a blend of different interesting personalities from different walks of life and nationalities. Here you can find people who are experts in gaming, playing guitar, riding bicycles, and other areas. We, as a team, will support you in learning how to build your own scrapers and will share all the tips, tricks and hacks we know to ensure that you are onboard in no time. In this role, you’ll: Patching a Chromium-based browserBenchmarking & documenting resultsCollaborating with browser patching engineers & web scraping engineers to deliver a stealth-focused browserUnderstanding fingerprinting signals of major anti-bots and implementing patches accordingly Your skills & experience: Proficiency with C++Experience with working on browser source codeNetwork (TLS/SSL) knowledgeUnderstanding of browser fingerprintingKnowledge of unblocking websites for scrapingKnowledge of browser automation & scalability Nice to have: Contribution to open-source scraping-related repositories Salary & Benefits: Gross salary: from 20 000 PLN/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experienceGrowth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing Up for the challenge? Let’s talk! We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.