Browser Patching Engineer (Remote)

Oxylabs · full-time · posted 8 Sep

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Browser Patching Engineer (Remote)

Oxylabs

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Full-time
Posted
2 days ago

What the posting asks for

  • C++
  • Browser source code
  • Network (TLS/SSL)
  • Browser fingerprinting
  • Website unblocking for scraping
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The posting, in its own words

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 browser.
  • Benchmarking & documenting results.
  • Collaborating with browser patching engineers & web scraping engineers to deliver a stealth-focused browser.
  • Understanding fingerprinting signals of major anti-bots and implementing patches accordingly.

Your skills & experience:

  • Proficiency with C++.
  • Experience with working on browser source code.
  • Network (TLS/SSL) knowledge.
  • Understanding of browser fingerprinting.
  • Knowledge of unblocking websites for scraping.
  • Knowledge 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 experience.
  • Growth & 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.
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