[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Web Access Engineer @Tavily

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the web access infrastructure behind a novel search engine designed for agentic AI.

In this role, you will investigate how modern websites communicate with browsers and translate that understanding into production systems operating at internet scale. You will build browser infrastructure and tooling that enables reliable, efficient access to web content across a rapidly changing web.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Research and analyse how modern websites communicate with browsers across the complete request lifecycle
• Investigate browser fingerprinting, client verification mechanisms, and modern web technologies to enable reliable web access
• Build tooling for browser instrumentation, debugging, observability, and large-scale experimentation
• Translate technical research into production systems operating at internet scale

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production backend or infrastructure systems
• Expertise in several of the following areas:
• Browser Technologies
• Chromium architecture and browser internals
• Browser lifecycle and navigation
• Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)
• Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or similar browser automation frameworks
• Browser instrumentation and debugging
• Web Platform
• HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 — TLS, DNS, and browser networking
• Cookies, browser storage, caching, redirects, and session management
• JavaScript execution and modern client-side rendering
• Resource loading, page lifecycle, and browser networking
• Browser fingerprinting concepts and browser characteristics

Requirements

• Experience working on browser engines or browser infrastructure
• Experience reverse engineering browser or web application behaviour
• Experience building internet-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in Go, C++, Rust, or Python
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it
• Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests
• AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space