Role Overview

We are looking for a Web Scraping Engineer to design, build, and operate high-reliability web data acquisition systems in dynamic web environments. The role is hands-on and technical, focused on solving real-world scraping challenges such as anti-bot defenses, session management, browser automation, and large-scale parallel crawling.

Key Responsibilities

Core Web Scraping & Data Acquisition

- Design and implement high-parallel crawlers for complex, energetic websites
- Handle JavaScript-heavy sites using Python / Playwright / Puppeteer / CDP
- Implement robust session management, cookies, headers, and identity rotation
- Build resilient pipelines for structured & unstructured data extraction
- Ensure data accuracy, freshness, and consistency at scale

Anti-Bot & Protection Handling
- Analyze and mitigate anti-bot protections, including:
- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- Qrator
- ServicePipe
- Variti (and similar)
- Work with browser-level and network-level fingerprinting:
- TLS / JA3
- CDP fingerprints
- Header and behavior-based detection
- Integrate and optimize CAPTCHA solving strategies (where legally permitted)

Required Skills & ExperienceMust-Have
- 1–3+ years of hands-on web scraping / crawling experience
- Strong proficiency in Python (Scrapy, asyncio, aiohttp, Playwright)
- Deep understanding of:
- HTTP, cookies, headers, redirects
- Browser automation & JS execution




- Experience scraping highly protected websites
- Solid debugging skills in hostile scraping environments

Nice-to-Have (Not Mandatory)
- Familiarity with:
- Kubernetes / Helm (user-level, not platform owner)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Distributed task queues (Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Experience mentoring junior engineers

Role Details

Role: Data Engineer

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Engineering – Software & QA

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Software Development

Education

UG: B.Tech / B.E. in Any Specialization

Key Skills

- Scrapy
- Web Crawling
- Python
- Data Scraping
- Data Extraction

About Company KrawlNet Technologies enables advertisers and publishers to run affiliate programs efficiently and at scale. We aggregate product data from a wide range of retailers, allowing publishers and analytics partners to seamlessly access high-quality, normalised data to drive growth and performance.

At the core of our platform is web-scale crawling and data extraction, built to handle complex, dynamic web environments. Our mission is to solve critical industry challenges by delivering reliable services for data acquisition, cleansing, normalisation, and enrichment, transforming raw web content into actionable business intelligence.

Company Info

- Address: Suratwala Mark Plazzo, Hinjawadi, Pune, Maharashtra 411057

📌 Web Scraping Engineer in Pune
🏢 Krawlnet Technologies
📍 Pune