Senior Anti-Bot / Scraping Engineer (EU Applicants Only)
Adthena, Remote - EU
The role
Reporting to: Michal Gondar, Head of Engineering
Location: EU Remote (Please note, we can only accept applicants who are based in line with our remote hiring strategy: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus and Greece)
What you will do
What you’ll do at Adthena
As a Senior Anti-Bot Engineer, you will design, build, and operate large-scale, resilient web scraping systems, with a strong focus on Google and Google-like search environments.
This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, reverse engineering, and systems reliability, and is critical to delivering accurate, timely, and trustworthy data at scale.
You will work on complex scraping problems where naïve approaches do not work, including dynamic rendering, anti-bot defences, frequent markup changes, and high-volume data collection.
We are leaders in adopting coding with AI tools. The role is ideal for someone who believes in agentic coding and would like to improve their skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain large-scale Python scraping systems that operate reliably against Google and other highly defended websites
- Build scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript-heavy pages using browser automation and hybrid approaches
- Continuously adapt to changes in page structure, request flows, and anti-automation mechanisms
- Engineer robust extraction pipelines that prioritise data accuracy, consistency, and observability
- Implement proxy, fingerprinting, and request-routing strategies to maximise stability and throughput
- Monitor scrape health, detect failures early, and rapidly debug production issues
- Optimise performance, cost, and latency across scraping infrastructure
- Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ensure scraped data is usable and trusted
- Document scraping logic and operational runbooks for long-term maintainability
You’ll work closely with
Michal Gondar Head of Engineering LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalgondar/
Albert Albentosa Title: Senior Anti-Bot Engineer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-albentosa-b30ab9231/