Adthena
Adthena
Adthena develops AI-powered search intelligence and brand protection software for enterprises. Its SaaS platform helps organizations understand market trends, evaluate competitors, optimize PPC campaigns, and improve the efficiency of their Google Ads investment. Combining patented technology with paid search expertise, Adthena supports data-informed advertising decisions across sectors such as automotive, finance, and retail, serving global brands and agencies.

Senior Anti-Bot Scraping Engineer (Europe Remote)

Build resilient, large-scale scraping systems for Adthena’s paid search intelligence platform. Work across Google defenses, browser automation, extraction reliability, and production observability.

Description

  • Create and operate large-scale Python scraping systems for Google and other heavily protected websites
  • Develop scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript-driven pages with browser automation and hybrid techniques
  • Respond to changes in page structures, request workflows, and anti-automation controls
  • Build extraction pipelines that deliver accurate, consistent, observable data
  • Apply proxy, fingerprinting, and request-routing strategies to improve stability and throughput
  • Track scraping health, identify failures quickly, and troubleshoot production incidents
  • Improve the performance, cost efficiency, and latency of scraping infrastructure
  • Partner with data engineering, data science, and product teams to keep scraped data reliable and useful
  • Maintain documentation for scraping logic and operational procedures
  • Report to the Head of Engineering
  • Complete a two-stage interview process

Requirements

  • Professional production experience with Python or another primary language such as Go, Rust, or JavaScript, including large-scale scraping systems
  • Extensive hands-on experience scraping Google or similarly protected platforms
  • Strong knowledge of HTTP, TLS, cookies, headers, redirects, and browser networking behavior
  • Experience using Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or a comparable browser automation framework
  • Strong command of HTML parsing, DOM traversal, and data extraction methods
  • Experience managing rate limits, CAPTCHAs, IP rotation, and bot detection systems
  • Confidence working with asynchronous and concurrent scraping architectures
  • Experience operating scrapers at scale in cloud environments
  • Strong debugging ability and a structured approach to complex failure modes
  • Experience with headless browser fingerprinting and anti-bot evasion techniques
  • Applicants must be based in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus, or Greece
  • Availability to work in the UK timezone
  • Permission to work without visa restrictions in the current location

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Trust-based vacation with no fixed limit on time off
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Flexible working arrangements with autonomy over the workday
  • Tailored training and career development through Sherpa plans
  • Monthly hackdays and training days
  • Up to six months of fully paid maternity leave
  • Two months of paternity leave
  • $200 home office stipend
  • $70 welcome credit for company swag
  • Paid day off for your birthday
  • Summer and Christmas parties
  • Annual and quarterly offsites
  • Monthly meetups
  • Paid volunteer time each quarter

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