Automation Engineer (Advanced Anti Bot and Captcha Handling)
We are looking for an Automation Engineer with deep experience working around complex anti bot environments. This includes understanding how platforms like Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, Perimeter, Imperva, reCAPTCHA, and other captcha systems classify and challenge automated traffic. The focus is on building resilient, compliant automation tools that can operate reliably at scale despite these protective layers.
This role suits an engineer who enjoys technical puzzles, understands how anti bot systems work internally, and can design automation workflows that remain stable, efficient, and legally compliant.
About the Company
A growing digital business that relies on large scale data acquisition to support commercial decision making. The work involves high traffic volumes, evolving automation needs, and environments where standard scraping approaches are regularly challenged by anti automation technologies.
What You Will Be Doing
Building and maintaining high scale crawlers and automation scripts for complex, protected environments.
Designing browser automation that can adapt to anti bot systems such as Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, Perimeter, Imperva, and others.
Integrating captcha solving services where appropriate while respecting all legal and ethical guidelines.
Implementing fingerprinting, session handling, and behavioural simulation to improve automation stability.
Building systems that operate reliably under rate limits, behavioural analysis, and risk scoring models.
Monitoring bot detection feedback and refining approaches to improve performance and resilience.
Working with product and engineering teams to refine automation strategy as protection mechanisms change.
What You Will Need
Strong experience with Python, Node.js, or Go.
Expert level understanding of browser automation frameworks such as Playwright or Puppeteer.
Demonstrable experience working with anti bot environments including WAFs, behavioural scoring, and dynamic challenges.
Understanding of captchas, fingerprinting, traffic shaping, session management, and proxy infrastructure.
Experience designing scalable, distributed automation systems.
A creative, analytical mindset and strong technical ownership.
What’s On Offer
Competitive salary.
A high autonomy role where you set the technical direction.
The opportunity to work on some of the hardest automation problems in the industry.
Long term progression within a scaling business.