Software Engineer, Anti-Adblock at Ad-Shield · New York, NY · Joined
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Software Engineer, Anti-Adblock
Ad-Shield · New York, NY · Just now · 0 applicants
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Workplace
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Job type
Full-time
Level
Middle
Team: Anti-Adblock · Source: jobright · Posted by joined-scrapper
About the role
Ad-Shield seeks a Software Engineer to investigate adblocking behavior and build reliable anti-adblock systems for publishers. The role requires strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, browser and networking expertise, and experience with adversarial technologies.
What you’ll do
Investigate adblocking behavior
Develop reliable improvements across anti-adblock runtime, delivery, detection, and edge systems
Take end-to-end ownership from research and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and retrospective improvement
Ensure attention to observability, failure modes, regression prevention, and rollout safety
Reproduce inconsistent behavior and inspect runtime/network state to test hypotheses
What you’ll need
Strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills and solid understanding of browsers, DOM, HTTP, networking, caching, and CDNs
Strong debugging and research skills
Systems mindset with attention to observability, failure modes, regression prevention, and rollout safety
Experience with browser internals, browser extensions, or content-filtering technologies such as CSP, Service Workers, filter rules, or scriptlets
Experience with reverse engineering, security research, anti-tampering, or other adversarial systems
Experience with Cloudflare Workers, CDNs, edge computing, or high-traffic web infrastructure
Original job description
Ad-Shield builds adblock recovery technology for publishers. The Software Engineer will investigate adblocking behavior and develop reliable improvements across anti-adblock runtime, delivery, detection, and edge systems.Strong software engineering fundamentals and the judgment to work independently in unfamiliar codebasesStrong JavaScript or TypeScript…