• Contributors will design and implement multi-file coding tasks across bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and testing • Write clear natural-language specifications and reference implementations • Develop and extend unit and integration test suites • Review peer-generated tasks for correctness, clarity, and realism • Identify edge cases, ambiguities, and potential failure modes • Ensure alignment between specifications, code, and expected outputs

• Provide technical direction for products, projects, and features with emphasis on back end systems and APIs responsible for ingesting, processing, and routing data • Contribute to architecture discussions and design reviews with others on your team • Partner with a cross functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to translate feature specifications into product designs and implementable code • Design, develop, test, and maintain clear, concise, and robust code that produces the desired outcomes for our customers • Ensure product features are working as expected by creating robust test plans paired with comprehensive automated tests • Mentor and coach junior engineers on the design and implementation of their code • Evangelize our innovation and engage our users by contributing to internal and external blogs related to the products that you help develop • This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

• 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 to integrate real-time web data into retrieval pipelines and LLM-powered agents • Translate deep technical insights into production-grade components, balancing research freedom with engineering rigor • Continuously evolve Tavily’s capabilities in resilience, speed, and authenticity of web interaction.

• Build, maintain, and improve on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures used for product development and testing • Develop and enhance automated test frameworks and expand product test coverage • Implement, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines • Create tools and automation to streamline engineering and operational workflows • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and deployment automation • Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, QA, DevOps, and platform teams • Prepare and maintain technical documentation, specifications, and operational guides • Support quality initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, performance, and security