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Software Engineer (Web Crawling)

Exa

On-siteSan Francisco, CAmid$150k–$300kPosted 8h ago

Job description

  • As a Web Crawler engineer, you’d be responsible for crawling the entire web. Basically build Google-scale crawling!

  • Build a distributed crawler that can handle 100M+ pages per day

  • Optimize crawl politeness and rate limiting across thousands of domains

  • Design systems to detect and handle dynamic content, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot measures

  • Create intelligent crawl scheduling and prioritization algorithms for maximum coverage efficiency- You have extensive experience building and scaling web crawlers, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly

  • You care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world

  • You have experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)

  • You are familiar with TypeScript, Playwright, modern web design, CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)

  • You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree