Software Engineer (Web Crawling)
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- As a Web Crawler engineer, you’d be responsible for crawling the entire web. Basically build Google-scale crawling!
- Build a distributed crawler that can handle 100M+ pages per day
- Optimize crawl politeness and rate limiting across thousands of domains
- Design systems to detect and handle dynamic content, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot measures
- Create intelligent crawl scheduling and prioritization algorithms for maximum coverage efficiency
- You have extensive experience building and scaling web crawlers, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly
- You care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
- You have experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
- You are familiar with TypeScript, Playwright, modern web design, CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)
- You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree