Software Engineer, Backend (Collection Fingerprinting)
Core
Designing statistically disciplined, cross-layer systems to collect hard-to-access data in adversarial environments, serving national security missions.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (browser automation & anti-bot evasion)
Builds
Distributed scraping architectures, low-level evasion techniques, managed attribution browsing, and tool-call-ready interfaces for agents.
Domain
National security data collection, browser automation, anti-abuse systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting, signature mitigation, TypeScript, Python, instrumentation and monitoring, protocol behavior analysis
Preferred skills
agentic systems, web scraping, national security workflows, React, full stack capability
Responsibilities
Design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes, develop technical plans to keep high-value data flowing, ensure collected data is usable by agents, collaborate across engineering and mission teams to translate data needs into durable systems.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC