Senior Anti-Bot / Scraping Engineer (EU Applicants Only)

The role

You will design, build, and operate large-scale, resilient web scraping systems focused on Google and Google-like search environments. The role involves working at the intersection of data engineering, reverse engineering, and systems reliability.

What you will do

• Design and maintain large-scale Python scraping systems
• Build scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript-heavy pages using browser automation
• Adapt to changes in page structure, request flows, and anti-automation mechanisms
• Engineer robust extraction pipelines
• Implement proxy, fingerprinting, and request-routing strategies
• Monitor scrape health and debug production issues
• Optimise performance, cost, and latency across scraping infrastructure
• Work with data engineers, data scientists, and product teams
• Document scraping logic and operational runbooks

Required 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 behaviour
• 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

Nice to have

• Familiarity with containerisation 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

• Stock Options
• Trust-Based Vacation
• Remote-First
• Flexible Work
• Career Growth via Sherpa plans
• Monthly Hackdays & Training Days
• Up to 6 months fully paid maternity leave
• 2 months paternity leave
• Home Office Stipend: $200
• Swag Welcome Gift: $70 credit
• Birthday Day Off
• Regular Socials

Before you apply

• Applicants must be based in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus or Greece
• Interviews consist of 2 stages

About the company

Adthena is a search intelligence platform powered by patented AI technology. They help brands, marketers, and agencies with insights into the paid search market.