Senior Software Engineer, Browser Automation

Help us grow and harden our browser automation and crawling engine , which is the layer that discovers, navigates, and interacts with target applications before and during an autonomous pentest.

Advance our browser-driven crawler using Playwright and Stagehand .

Tackle the gnarly realities of modern web apps: SPA routing and hydration timing, authenticated sessions, multi-step flows, file uploads, WebSocket/ Socket.IO traffic, infinite scroll, and crawler traps.

Extend our agentic login and authentication capabilities, including complex auth flows, MFA/TOTP, and credentialed access reliable enough to run unattended against customer environments.

Improve crawl coverage, determinism, and throughput . This involves endpoint and parameter discovery, dedupe, queueing, and state management, while keeping everything production-safe and side-effect-aware.

Help draw the line between deterministic automation and LLM-driven navigation , applying models surgically rather than as a default, and keeping the system fast, debuggable, and cheap to run.

Collaborate with the attack-team engineers who consume your crawl output, and help shape the graph-backed application map the rest of the pipeline depends on.

Experience with agentic browser frameworks (Stagehand, Browser Use, or similar) or building LLM-in-the-loop automation.

Background in web application security or offensive tooling — familiarity with broken access control, IDOR/BOLA, SQLi, XSS, SSRF, or SSTI in the wild.

Familiarity with graph data models (e.g., Neo4j) for representing application structure.

Experience with large-scale crawling, endpoint discovery (e.g., parsing/analyzing client-side JS), or session/credential management for automated access.

Comfort working in an environment where correctness against a live customer system is a hard, non-negotiable constraint.

You’ve gone beyond using tools like Playwright or Puppeteer to actually hacking on their internals or contributing to the core.

You’ve built browser automation at extreme scale, handling thousands of sessions against hostile, heavily-defended targets. You know exactly how systems break under pressure and have the war stories to prove it.

You’ve successfully outmaneuvered sophisticated WAFs, anti-bot defenses, and fingerprinting mechanisms in production environments.

You have an offensive security mindset: you don’t just navigate a web app; you actively map its attack surface and hunt for unreachable paths.

You have battle-tested experience with LLMs in production. You understand the engineering trade-offs: knowing when AI is an asset and when it introduces unacceptable latency or nondeterminism compared to a deterministic script.

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