Senior Web Browser Researcher

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $174k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 4%

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

💰 $32M Series B on 2021-11

Cybersecurity • API • SaaS

Fingerprint is a technology company focused on bot detection and identification solutions. The platform helps businesses ensure a secure online environment by accurately identifying users and distinguishing between real users and automated bots. They provide developer guides and workspace settings for easy integration into various applications, enhancing security and user experience.

📋 Description

• Independently research novel device-identification, visitor-identification, Smart Signals, and bot-detection techniques across modern browsers • Own findings end to end by assessing actionable signals, supporting assessments with data, and delivering recommendations with impact estimates, limitations, and trade-offs • Stay engaged through engineering implementation, review changes, answer questions, and advise on edge cases • Build and maintain research tooling including observers, fuzzers, and scrapers • Track browser changes through beta, canary, and dev channels and spec/RFC discussions • Translate browser changes into product impact and action • Produce and share structured research outputs, including internal write-ups, product and engineering articles, proofs of concept, and experimental signal implementations • Mentor colleagues, conduct peer review, and contribute to public thought leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Deep understanding of web platform fundamentals, browser internals, and web security concepts • Strong proficiency in JavaScript • Ability to read, comprehend, and navigate code across multiple programming languages • Solid grasp of web networking fundamentals • Proven ability to uncover and explain undocumented behavior of web technologies, APIs, and protocols through testing, debugging, and reverse engineering • Track record of independently driving research from idea to a validated, actionable result • Experience designing and running experiments against real traffic and analyzing large-scale data • Recognized depth in at least one area, such as reverse engineering, network-related research, or identification • Working breadth across adjacent areas • Clear communication of findings, impact, and trade-offs to engineering and product partners • Authorized to work from the candidate's home location • Preferred: experience building research and automation tooling, submitting issues to Chromium, Firefox, or WebKit bug trackers, backend development with Go, anti-fingerprinting approaches, and public research contributions

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Personal growth opportunities • Mentorship, peer review, and public thought leadership opportunities • Inclusive work environment • Ability to work from almost any country, subject to country restrictions and work authorization • No visa sponsorship required/available