Job Title

Internet Measurement Researcher (Censorship & Proxies)

Job Description

TGScope is looking for a researcher for a project-based contract of about two months, fully remote, paid by the hour.

The project: design and run measurement of Telegram and MTProto proxy reachability by country: methodology, vantage points, probes, and a first measurement round.

How Python is used: the whole project is Python. Our proxy checker is an asyncio service that performs a full MTProto handshake over FakeTLS and obfuscated2; new probes, the measurement pipeline and the analysis are written in Python.

Stack: Python (asyncio, aiohttp, asyncpg, cryptography), MTProto, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, Cloudflare Workers.

Restrictions

• No telecommuting
• Agencies are OK

Requirements

• Experience in internet measurement, censorship research or network security
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP, TLS and DPI-based blocking
• Understanding of circumvention protocols: MTProto proxy, FakeTLS, Shadowsocks, VLESS or similar
• Strong Python (asyncio)
• Written English

About the Company

TGScope (https://tgscope.io) is an independent R&D lab and Telegram search engine. We index 3 million public channels, run semantic search and an interactive map on top of them, and publish research on the Telegram ecosystem.

Contact Info

• Contact: TGScope Hiring
• E-mail contact: tgscope.connect@gmail.com
• Web: https://tgscope.io/careers/internet-measurement-researcher?utm_source=python_org&utm_medium=jobboard