[Hiring] Senior Anti-Bot Engineer @Adthena

Role Description

As a Senior Anti-Bot Engineer, you will design, build, and operate large-scale, resilient web scraping systems, with a strong focus on Google and Google-like search environments. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, reverse engineering, and systems reliability, and is critical to delivering accurate, timely, and trustworthy data at scale. You will work on complex scraping problems where naïve approaches do not work, including:

• Dynamic rendering
• Anti-bot defenses
• Frequent markup changes
• High-volume data collection

We are leaders in adopting coding with AI tools. The role is ideal for someone who believes in agentic coding and would like to improve their skills.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with Python (or another main language, i.e. GoLang, Rust, JavaScript) including production-grade scraping systems
• Deep hands-on experience scraping Google or similarly protected platforms
• Solid understanding of HTTP, TLS, cookies, headers, redirects, and browser networking behavior
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or equivalent browser automation frameworks
• Strong knowledge of HTML parsing, DOM traversal, and data extraction techniques
• Experience handling rate limiting, CAPTCHA, IP rotation, and bot detection systems
• Comfortable working with asynchronous and concurrent scraping architectures
• Experience running scrapers at scale in cloud environments
• Strong debugging skills and ability to reason about complex failure modes
• Experience with headless browser fingerprinting and anti-bot evasion techniques

Requirements

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with distributed task systems and job queues
• Background in data quality monitoring and anomaly detection
• Experience working with search, advertising, or competitive intelligence data

Benefits

• Startup Engineering culture
• Strong Culture: 93% average approval rating for company culture
• Award-Winning Product: US 2025 Search Awards for Best AI Search Software Innovation
• Stock Options: Share the rewards as the company grows
• Trust-Based Vacation: Take as much time off as needed
• Remote-First: 52% of Adthenians work fully remote
• Flexible Work: Full autonomy over your workday
• Career Growth: Bespoke training and career development via "Sherpa plans”
• Monthly Hackdays & Training Days
• Family Care Package: Up to 6 months fully paid maternity leave, and 2 months paternity leave
• Home Office Stipend: $200 for your ideal remote setup
• Swag Welcome Gift: $70 credit for merch
• Birthday Day Off: Celebrate your special day
• Regular Socials: Summer & Christmas parties, annual and quarterly offsites, monthly meet-ups
• Volunteer Days: Paid volunteer time each quarter

Company Description

Adthena is an award-winning search intelligence platform powered by patented AI technology and a team of dedicated experts. We help brands, marketers, and agencies dominate their competitive landscapes with unparalleled insights into the paid search market. Our Whole Market View, Smart Monitor, and Local View solutions give clients the clarity to optimize spend, increase ROI, and stay ahead of the competition.

Trusted by global brands like Citibank, L’Oréal, and Volvo, and backed by Updata Partners, we’ve been redefining search intelligence since 2012. In 2025, Adthena continued its winning streak, earning 8 major search industry awards, including:

• Best AI Search Software Solution at the US Search Awards
• Best Search Software Tool at the European Search Awards
• Best Software Innovation at the Global Search Awards