Product Engineer - Scrape

Map Ssg•San Francisco, CA

33d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Product Engineer to help build the developer-facing products that turn the messy, constantly changing web into reliable data and actions. This is hands-on product engineering at the core of the platform. You will ship features used by thousands of developers, own them from idea through production, and work on the difficult problems that sit at the intersection of web scraping, browser automation, APIs, reliability, and developer experience. The web does not behave nicely. JavaScript-heavy applications, anti-bot systems, authentication flows, dynamic content, proxies, long-running browser sessions, and constantly changing sites all create edge cases. Your job is to make that complexity disappear behind an API developers enjoy using.

Requirements

3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience building and shipping products used by external developers
Strong experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, open-source developer tooling, or similar infrastructure
Hands-on experience with web scraping, crawling, browser automation, browser agents, or related web infrastructure
Experience with technologies such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Chromium, Chrome DevTools Protocol, Selenium, proxies, browser sessions, or similar tooling is highly relevant
Understanding of the challenges involved in scraping modern websites, including dynamic content, JavaScript rendering, authentication, bot detection, and reliability
Strong product instincts and genuine attention to developer experience
Ability to take an ambiguous problem, determine what should be built, and ship it without requiring a fully specified ticket
Comfortable owning features end-to-end, including design, implementation, deployment, reliability, and iteration
Bias toward shipping, measuring, and improving rather than over-planning
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada.
The company is not currently able to sponsor U.S. visas.
Canadian sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis through the Toronto office.

Nice To Haves

Engineers who have worked on: Scraping or crawling platforms
Browser automation infrastructure
Developer APIs or SDKs
Browser agents and AI web automation
Headless browser infrastructure
Anti-bot or stealth-browser systems
Proxy and session infrastructure
Data extraction products
Developer tools or open-source infrastructure
Experience with companies or products in the web-data, browser-automation, developer-infrastructure, or AI-agent ecosystem can be particularly relevant.

Responsibilities

Build and ship developer-facing product features from idea to production
Improve scraping and browser automation reliability across difficult and constantly changing websites
Design clean APIs and product surfaces developers can easily build on
Work on challenges involving JavaScript-heavy sites, browser sessions, authentication, proxies, anti-bot systems, dynamic content, and long-tail scraping failures
Own the reliability, latency, response quality, and overall developer experience of what you ship
Work directly with engineers on product direction, architecture, and technical tradeoffs
Dogfood the product and use developer feedback, GitHub issues, and real-world failures to drive improvements
Ship quickly, measure the result, and iterate