Junior Technical Researcher

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:
You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

• 6PB+ Ceph storage
• 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
• 300k+ service requests/sec processed
• 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

The team waiting for you:

They're building the next generation of web scraping platform - new high-scale product endpoints, designed Go-first. We're looking for a strong backend engineer who wants to grow into Go, treats AI tools as a core part of how they build, and likes owning real problems at scale

Up for the challenge? Let’s talk!

• Continuously research and test AI agent tools, developer products, and emerging infrastructure players, then turn findings into clear recommendations for our product and go-to-market direction.

• Use our products end-to-end from a developer perspective, auditing the experience across product flows, website, docs, and technical messaging to identify friction, gaps, and misleading positioning.

• Track changes in the AI and agent ecosystem, including MCP, browser-use standards, agent-to-agent patterns, and new developer workflows, and highlight what matters most for our product strategy.

• Maintain a living view of the agent tooling landscape, including frameworks, SDKs, key competitors, and emerging categories relevant to proxies, scraping, and developer infrastructure.

• Identify opportunities to connect new agent-facing use cases and integrations with our existing proxy and scraping capabilities.

• Represent our technical direction in external communities by engaging with developers, following open-source conversations, and sharing ecosystem insights back with internal teams.
• Hands-on software development experience, with an understanding of developer workflows, technical products, and how developers evaluate tools in practice

• Strong understanding of the AI tooling landscape, with hands-on curiosity around agents, LLM applications, developer tools, APIs, and technical workflows.

• Ability to evaluate products critically from a developer-user perspective and translate observations into concrete product, positioning, or integration recommendations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize complex technical trends clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in a fast-changing space, forming opinions with incomplete information, and adjusting quickly as the ecosystem evolves.
• Familiarity with proxy, scraping, browser automation, or data extraction products.

• Exposure to AI agent frameworks, browser-use tools, MCP-related developments, or developer infrastructure ecosystems.

• Experience participating in technical communities, open-source ecosystems, conferences, or Discord/Slack developer groups.
• Gross salary: from 2400 EUR/month to 3800 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.

• Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.

• Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.

• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.

• Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here:  https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/ .