
Scraping Tech Lead – Web Scraping, Anti-bot
Infatica.io
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇰🇪 Kenya
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Senior
Tech Stack
DockerGoKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonRedis
About the role
- Architecture Design: Data-plane (high-parallel crawler, session management, anti-bot bypass, CAPTCHA solver), Control-plane (API, authorization, billing, quotas, monitoring), Infrastructure (microservices, Docker/K8s, CI/CD, observability)
- Development Leadership: Team building, establish development and release processes, code quality control and technical decision oversight
- Anti-Bot Research & Bypass: Browser and network-level fingerprinting, protection bypass
- DevOps / SRE: CI/CD setup, Helm charts, scaling configuration, monitoring organization and SLA processes
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience in high-load backend/data platforms
- Extensive Scraping experience (mandatory)
- Excellent understanding of HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2, proxies, browser stack (CDP, WebRTC)
- Experience with async Python and Go (ideally both), Redis, queues, message brokers
- Advanced level DevOps tools: Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, CI/CD
- Experience analyzing and bypassing bot protection systems — strong plus
- Fluent English (all documentation and part of the team are English-speaking)
- Decision-making skills, mentoring abilities, and accountability for results
Benefits
- Participate in developing the company's key product from scratch
- High autonomy and influence on architecture and team decisions
- Budget for conferences, courses, and work tools
- Competitive compensation package
- Remote work flexibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
high-parallel crawlersession managementanti-bot bypassCAPTCHA solvermicroservicesasync PythonGoRedismessage brokersHTTP/2
Soft skills
team buildingdevelopment leadershipcode quality controltechnical decision oversightdecision-making skillsmentoring abilitiesaccountability for results