Zyte

Browser Stack Engineer - Remote

Zyte  •  Zagreb, HR (Remote)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 260 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

About the Job

You will be a founding engineer on our new Browser Stack team, building the custom browser and automation technology that powers the entire fetching stack at Zyte and gives customers unfettered access to open web data.

Browser engineering is a distinct and demanding core competency: Chromium/V8 internals, stealth patching, and automation-protocol work. Our custom, Puppeteer-free browser already passes every major antibot and scores 0.9 on reCAPTCHA — but detection surfaces shift weekly, and staying ahead requires deep, dedicated browser engineering. You will own that frontier.

This data powers business-critical decisions in industries such as eCommerce, OTA, travel, healthcare, information security, and financial services. You will play a key role in transforming how companies get web data, giving them the ability to make better decisions, products, and results.

Requirements

Roles & Responsibilities

As a founding member of the Browser Stack team, you'll build and harden the custom browser and automation layer that the hardest targets on the web can't tell apart from a real user. This is a fast-moving frontier — detection surfaces shift weekly, and the browser you ship is the difference between data flowing and data stopping. In particular, you will:

  • Engineer the internals of our custom browser and defeat fingerprinting and antibot detection at the deepest layers of the stack
  • Extend the stealth frontier across new engines and mobile profiles
  • Build our own automation client to run and control the browser at scale on the toughest sites
  • Create the introspection and tracing tooling that turns days of manual ban investigation into a readout in minutes
  • Harden the release pipeline so browser updates never ship silent success-rate cliffs
  • Push browser performance to keep pace with the fastest headless and cloud browser platforms
  • Help shape the team's technical roadmap and contribute back to open source browser development

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in C++ and TypeScript
  • Previous experience contributing to the source code of an open source browser project such as Chromium, WebKit, or Firefox
  • Good understanding of Web APIs (for example canvas, audio, WebGL, WebRTC)
  • Deep understanding of operating systems, plus knowledge of emulation and virtualization
  • A good understanding of the TCP/IP stack as well as HTTP and SOCKS protocols
  • A good understanding of containerisation concepts (Docker, containerd, runc, K8s)
  • Experience with Rust
  • Experience building and deploying production applications
  • A good understanding of browser fingerprinting approaches

Bonus points for

  • Being a core committer to any of the major browser projects
  • A good understanding of libraries such as Puppeteer and Playwright and the underlying Chrome DevTools Protocol
  • Experience building or replacing a CDP-based automation client
  • WebAssembly knowledge
  • Experience with mobile browser stacks and mobile device / browser profiles
  • Experience developing any one of the following: QEMU, WSL, Wine, VirtualBox

Benefits

By joining the Zyte team, you will:

  • Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team
  • Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work
  • Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe
  • Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools
Zyte

About Zyte

At Zyte, we’re all about empowering data-driven organizations to ethically and accurately collect web data to power their business. With over 14 years experience and our early authorship and ongoing maintenance of Scrapy, we’ve shaped the web scraping industry from Day 1.

We help our clients…

- With easy-to-use ways to collect, format and deliver web data, quickly, dependably and at scale,

- Spend more time gleaning insights from highly accurate, business-critical data, and

- Spend less money on the total cost of ownership in web data extraction.

Zyte API abstracts away a historically disparate web data extraction tech stack into a single tool. Zyte API automates most anti-bot and proxy management, so developers can spend more time on strategy.

Zyte API is a full-stack solution that crawls, unblocks and extracts data in minutes with the power of AI. Developers skip the hassle of creating manual parsing code and extract public data at unlimited scale.

Zyte Data is an expert web data extraction team in your pocket. Our white glove service extracts any web data your business needs, regardless of project size and complexity. This includes a dedicated team and round-the-clock support.

Zyte’s legal team is our backbone and is made up of the leading minds in web data extraction compliance. They stay on top of the ever-changing and opaque laws that loom over the industry. They evaluate compliance risks and inform customers about best practices.

Zyte is certified by and a co-founder of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI) which recognizes web data providers operating with the highest level of ethical and legal standards.

Come work for us!

We encourage a flexible and diverse work environment, so we embraced the benefits of remote work from our very early beginnings. Our team includes over 200 employees in over 30 countries. All sharing the same drive, to do more with web data.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Ballincollig, IE
Year Founded
2010
Website
zyte.com
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