Tavily
Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Web Access Engineer
Salary not disclosed5+ yearsOnsite
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About the role
Tavily is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the web access infrastructure for a search engine designed for agentic AI. You will investigate how modern websites communicate with browsers and translate that understanding into production systems operating at internet scale. This role involves building browser infrastructure and tooling to enable reliable, efficient access to web content.
Responsibilities
- Research and analyse how modern websites communicate with browsers across the complete request lifecycle
- Investigate browser fingerprinting, client verification mechanisms, and modern web technologies to enable reliable web access
- Build tooling for browser instrumentation, debugging, observability, and large-scale experimentation
- Translate technical research into production systems operating at internet scale
Required skills
- Chromium architecture
- Browser internals
- Chrome DevTools Protocol
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Selenium
- Browser instrumentation
- HTTP
- TLS
- DNS
- Browser networking
- JavaScript
- Browser fingerprinting
Nice to have
- Browser engines
- Reverse engineering
- Distributed systems
- Go
- C++
- Rust
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Cloud infrastructure
About the Company
Tavily builds the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale, connecting LLMs to high-quality, trustworthy web content to power RAG and real-time reasoning in AI systems.