Scraping Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll own the reliability and quality of a web extraction infrastructure that processes millions of pages daily through hundreds of scripts, embedded within a fast-moving AI startup team. Reporting to the Forward Deployed Engineer, this role is critical to keeping a high-throughput data pipeline running smoothly and accurately.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Monitor and triage a queue of broken scrapers and data quality alerts to maintain smooth operations.

- Build and deploy new web scraping scripts for sites that require data extraction.

- Validate scraped data for accuracy and investigate discrepancies as they arise.

- Create dashboards to visualize and monitor scraped data in real time.

- Collaborate with AI agents to fill capability gaps, fix issues, and improve existing scripts.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 1+ years of hands-on professional experience building or maintaining web scraping solutions.

- Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js for building and debugging scraping scripts.

- Proficiency with SQL for data querying and validation.

- Experience with Puppeteer or similar browser automation libraries.

- Experience debugging and fixing broken scrapers in production environments.

- Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ or similar asynchronous job processing systems.

- Experience with Redis or similar in-memory caching systems.

- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent cloud infrastructure (BigQuery experience is a plus).

- Experience with bash scripting, git, and gRPC.

- Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools is a plus.

- Strong async communicator who proactively flags blockers and sends updates without prompting.

- Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by a fast-paced, early-stage environment.

LOCATION

Fully remote, open to any time zone. Candidates must have 8+ hours of daily availability with overlap during US business hours. Visa sponsorship is not available.