Security Researcher – Bot Detection Adversarial Research

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🕒 September 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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501 - 1000 employees

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

API • SaaS • B2B

Bright Data is a web data platform that enables businesses to discover, access, extract, and deliver structured web data at scale. It offers a suite of Web Access APIs (Unlocker, SERP, Browser, Crawl), Scraper APIs and Scraper Studio, pre-collected Datasets and a Web Archive, real-time Data Feeds and a Data Firehose, plus large-scale proxy infrastructure (residential, ISP, datacenter) to avoid blocks and CAPTCHAs. Bright Data positions itself for AI and enterprise use cases — providing AI-ready datasets, video and audio feeds for model training, and managed data acquisition — and emphasizes compliance and ethical data collection practices. The platform is used for market research, eCommerce intelligence, SERP tracking, data-for-AI, fraud and security, brand protection, and other B2B data needs.

📋 Description

• Simulate advanced adversaries against Bright Data's data collection products • Conduct in-depth research on tools or services that prevent free collection of public web data • Build and improve HTTP client solutions to support Bright Data's data collection efforts • Identify new standards and technologies that could impact data collection capabilities • Reverse engineer adversary solutions to prevent fingerprinting solutions from stopping data collection • Build new machine learning data collection methods • Help scale the Bright Data collection platform as the customer base grows

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience as an R&D developer / researcher / tester • A deep understanding of HTTP & TLS protocols • Fluent English • Experience working at an anti-bot or web security company – a major advantage • Experience with at least 2 of the following: • Programming experience in JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C++ • Penetration testing experience or offensive security certificates (OSCP, OSEP etc.) • Professional security research experience (such as web vulnerabilities, mobile apps etc.) • Reverse engineering skills (JS de-obfuscation or binaries reversing) / malware analysis • Anti-bot development or other similar products, such as WAF, Anti-Virus development (malware emulation etc.), DDoS prevention etc.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge anti-bot systems • Significant knowledge development in web application security • Autonomy and influence over projects • Opportunity to shape the team's ways of working • Direct access to the COO for ideas • Collaboration with SecRes and Bright Data teams

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