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Tavily

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2024

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $20M Series A - Tavily on 2025-08

API • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Tavily is a company that provides a secure API for connecting AI agents to the web, offering real-time web access, search, extraction, crawling, and research endpoints. The platform grounds models with fresh web context by retrieving live web data, extracting and structuring content, and chunking it for models to prevent hallucinations. Tavily emphasizes production-grade performance: low latency (180 ms p50), high availability (99. 99% SLA), scalability (300M+ monthly requests, billions of pages crawled), intelligent caching and indexing, and built-in safeguards for security, privacy, and content validation (blocking PII leakage, prompt injection, malicious sources). It integrates with leading LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq), is aimed at developers and enterprises, and is used for real-time AI search, retrieval for agents, and research. The company offers docs, SDKs, pricing, events, and partnerships with major platforms, and targets building the web access layer for AI agents.

📋 Description

• Build the web access infrastructure behind a novel search engine designed for agentic AI • Investigate how modern websites communicate with browsers across the complete request lifecycle • Build browser infrastructure and tooling enabling reliable, efficient access to web content across a rapidly changing web • Research browser fingerprinting, client verification mechanisms, and modern web technologies • Build tooling for browser instrumentation, debugging, observability, and large-scale experimentation • Translate technical research into production systems operating at internet scale

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production backend or infrastructure systems • Expert in several relevant browser technology or web platform areas • Knowledge of Chromium architecture and browser internals • Knowledge of browser lifecycle and navigation • Experience with Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) • Experience with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or similar browser automation frameworks • Browser instrumentation and debugging knowledge • Knowledge of HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS, DNS, and browser networking • Knowledge of cookies, browser storage, caching, redirects, and session management • Knowledge of JavaScript execution and modern client-side rendering • Knowledge of resource loading, page lifecycle, and browser networking • Knowledge of browser fingerprinting concepts and browser characteristics • Coding interview required as part of the process

🏖️ Benefits

• Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it • Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests • AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space