Software Engineer - Web Crawling

About Tavily

Tavily is building the search engine for AI agents. We believe the future of work will be led by AI agents, and that requires restructuring how the web is accessed. Our Search API provides web access for AI agents, enabling real-time internet search optimized for LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

We are backed by leading investors and serve developers and enterprises worldwide. Our team is fast-moving and ambitious. We ship quickly, iterate constantly, and care deeply about impact.

The Role

- You'll build the systems that power how AI interacts with the live web.

- You'll design and implement large-scale, intelligent web acquisition pipelines, making sense of an ever-changing online ecosystem and transforming it into structured, high-quality data.

- This role blends technical understanding of browsers, networks, and automation with hands-on engineering.

- You'll work on adaptive systems that navigate modern websites, understand evolving web interaction,detection systems, and gather meaningful information safely, efficiently, and at scale.

- Your work will directly shape Tavily's ability to provide AI agents with accurate, real-time knowledge of the world, bridging the gap between the open web and intelligent reasoning.

- This position is based in Israel and requires existing legal authorization to work in Israel. Tavily is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

What You'll Do

- Build distributed data acquisition systems that capture and structure the live web

- Investigate and analyze browser internals, fingerprinting, and anti-automation systems to develop stealthy, adaptive orchestration layers

- Prototype and deploy intelligent automation frameworks using Playwright, Puppeteer, and low-level browser control protocols (CDP)

- Conduct hands-on research into network flows, JavaScript-based protections, and emerging web standards affecting automation

- Collaborate with AI and infrastructure teams t...