Raydar
Backend Infrastructure Engineer
$235K–$260K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- Production-scale experience is required; recent anti-bot experience must be within the last 2 years. No total years specified.
About the job
Own and operate production infrastructure for large-scale automated website data collection, including proxy routing, session handling, browser identity, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Design and run proxy pools, session handling, and isolated outbound traffic at scale.
- Maintain request success and manage browser identity signals and verification challenges.
- Own proxy-layer reliability and costs, and investigate and permanently resolve intermittent production failures.
What they ask for
- Production-scale experience building proxy systems or data extraction pipelines that operate against hostile website defenses.
- Recent hands-on individual-contributor experience working around strong anti-bot protections, within the last 2 years.
- Production experience managing browser and TLS identity signals and automated challenge handling.
- Proficiency in Go and/or Python; strong networking fundamentals and ownership of production systems, including on-call duty.
Nice to have
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Pay
USD 235,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Prometheus, Grafana
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