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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

• Design and build large-scale rendering systems for modern web applications • Develop browser-based rendering infrastructure capable of executing complex JavaScript applications reliably • Research how modern frontend frameworks render and deliver content • Improve rendering quality, completeness, and performance across diverse websites • Optimise rendering cost, latency, resource utilisation, and throughput at internet scale • Translate rendering research into reliable production systems

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production backend or infrastructure systems • Expertise in several browser rendering and web application technologies • Knowledge of the Chromium rendering pipeline, including DOM, Layout, Paint, and Compositing • JavaScript execution inside browsers, rendering lifecycle, and page readiness • Headless browser execution and browser instrumentation • Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) • Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or similar frameworks • React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, and modern frontend architectures • Server-side rendering (SSR), client-side rendering (CSR), and streaming rendering • Single-page applications (SPA) and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) • Resource loading, lazy loading, and modern JavaScript bundles • Coding interview required as part of the process • Experience with high-throughput content processing pipelines, distributed systems design, performance optimisation, open-source contributions, engineering community involvement, conference talks, or technical publications may be advantageous

🏖️ 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