# Senior Software Engineer - System Programming (Zig/C++)

Back Senior Software Engineer - System Programming (Zig/C++) Location Paris or EU (Remote) About Lightpanda Lightpanda is building a headless web browser from scratch, tailor-made for machine usage. Our mission is to redefine web interaction by enabling AI agents, large-scale scraping, and automated workflows to run faster, smarter, and more efficiently, without the constraints of legacy browsers. We're an ambitious team with a strong open-source foundation, led by experienced founders with a successful startup exit history, and we're now funded. You'd be joining our team at an early stage, with equity incentives that reflect that. About this role We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time software engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of the engineering team to develop our open-source headless browser. What you will do: Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document the browser Improve the quality, efficiency, scalability, and stability of the browser Improve the binding framework with V8 JS engine Implement Web APIs and Chrome Devtools Protocol in Zig What we’re looking for: Experience with system programming/low level language Zig

- **Id**: 1220894
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lightpanda-senior-software-engineer-system-programming-zigc>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Paris, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, FI, HU, IE, IT, NL, PL, RO, ES, SE, EE, GR, LV, LT, LU, MT, PT, SK, SI
- **Hiring countries total**: 27
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T11:55:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-09-25T11:55:47Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1684
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Developer Tools, Web Scraping & Proxy Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 45892
- **Name**: Lightpanda
- **Domain**: lightpanda.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lightpanda>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 54000
- **Max usd**: 104000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 19

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Chrome DevTools** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: region
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: country
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Cyprus** — Iso: CY; Kind: region
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- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
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- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
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- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
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- **Latvia** — Iso: LV; Kind: region
- **Lithuania** — Iso: LT; Kind: region
- **Luxembourg** — Iso: LU; Kind: region
- **Malta** — Iso: MT; Kind: region
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: region
- **Slovakia** — Iso: SK; Kind: region
- **Slovenia** — Iso: SI; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T11:55:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1121, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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