Zyte is hiring a
Principal Reverse Engineer, Remote - Poland

Summary

The Principal Reverse Engineer at Zyte will collaborate with the product and engineering teams to build and optimize a high-performance scraping service. The role involves researching new methods for web scraping, developing scraping strategies, analyzing changes in website structures, and mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• Embrace the inherent uncertainty of this role and enjoy the freedom to carve your own path
• Possess a hacker mindset, able to rapidly develop proof of concepts to achieve results
• Approach project prioritization logically and with a measurement-backed strategy, thriving in collaborative environments with like-minded colleagues
• Have a solid understanding of techniques and tools for crawling, extracting, and processing data
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in JavaScript/Node.js and Python, coupled with a broad programming background and exceptional problem-solving abilities
• Possess strong research, debugging, fuzzing, and reverse engineering skills, including static, dynamic, and concolic analysis
• Have a deep understanding of operating systems and computer networking concepts
• Adept with tools such as Wireshark, Burp Suite etc to intercept and debug network traffic
• Understand browser engines, browser fingerprinting, and ad-blocker mechanisms

Responsibilities

• Lead the research of new methods and technologies to enhance web scraping techniques
• Devise new scraping strategies and algorithms to handle various website structures and anti-scraping measures
• Detect and analyze changes in website structures, content delivery methods, and anti-scraping technologies to adapt and refine scraping tools
• Provide strategic insights of modern web scraping challenges to our products, rapidly developing prototypes for overcoming anti-scraping techniques and ensuring data retrieval consistency
• Collaborate with cross-functional software engineering teams in developing robust and scalable web scraping solutions. Contribute to Zyte’s anti-detect browser and browser automation tooling
• Identify and assess emerging risks in web scraping, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Decompilers, IDA Pro, Ghidra
• Experience with C/C++
• Core contributions to Mozilla or Chromium projects

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team
• Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work
• Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe
• Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools