As a Data Engineer focused on web crawling and platform data acquisition, you will design, develop, and maintain large-scale web scraping pipelines to extract valuable platform data. You will be responsible for implementing scalable and resilient data extraction solutions, ensuring seamless data retrieval while working with proxy management, anti-bot bypass techniques, and data parsing. Optimizing scraping workflows for performance, reliability, and efficiency will be a key part of your role.
Additionally, you will ensure that all extracted data maintains high quality and integrity.
Preferred candidate profile
We are seeking candidates with:
- Strong experience in Python and web scraping frameworks such as Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright,
or BeautifulSoup.
- Knowledge of distributed web crawling architectures and job scheduling.
- Familiarity with headless browsers, CAPTCHA-solving techniques, and proxy management to handle dynamic web challenges.
- Experience with data storage solutions, including SQL, and cloud storage.
- Understanding of big data technologies like Spark and Kafka (a plus).
- Solid debugging skills to adapt to website structure changes and blockers.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and ability to work effectively in a team-driven environment.