Experienced Web Scraping Engineer - Python (Remote)

Oxylabs; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 234,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxylabs, a Warsaw-based team delivering cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions, seeks a skilled Python developer. You will build scalable scrapers and back-end components handling high data volumes with a focus on reliability and observability.

The role emphasizes scraping, parsing, and system maintenance. Experience with asynchronous programming, browser automation, and Go/C++ familiarity is a plus, in a fast-growing environment with global reach.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience.
• Solid CS fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of Git version control.
• Experience unblocking websites for scraping.
• Familiarity with browser automation and DevTools.
• Knowledge of TLS/SSL networking.
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience with large-scale scraping systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable scrapers.
• Define resilient scraping strategies, unblock websites for scraping. Improve observability in the system.
• Develop back-end solutions for scraping & parsing problems of various magnitudes.
• Maintain the current system and develop new features related to scraping & parsing.

Skills

Python

Git

Data structures

Asynchronous programming

DevTools

TLS/SSL

Web scraping

Browser automation

Tools

Redis

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Grafana

Prometheus

Pydantic

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Job description

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

- 6PB+ Ceph storage

- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems

- 300k+ service requests/sec processed

- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

A word from the team:

We run one of the most advanced and largest scraping and parsing products in the world. We serve thousands of requests per second with a very high success rate. Our scrapers and parsers are used by leading e-commerce, market intelligence, and AI industry players making the work challenging and truly global. The team is a blend of different interesting personalities from different walks of life and nationalities. Here you can find people who are experts in gaming, playing guitar, riding bicycles, and other areas. We, as a team, will support you in learning how to build your own scrapers and will share all the tips, tricks and hacks we know to ensure that you are onboard in no time.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop scalable scrapers.
• Define resilient scraping strategies, unblock websites for scrapingImprove observability in the system.
• Develop back-end solutions for scraping & parsing problems of various magnitudes.
• Maintain the current system and develop new features related to scraping & parsing.

Your skills & experience:

• Experience working with Python.
• Understanding of computer science, including data structures, algorithms, computability and complexity.
• Version Control skills using Git.
• Knowledge on how to unblock websites for scraping.
• Is able to use different scraping techniques & open-source tools to build scrapers.
• Is comfortable with using Dev Tools.
• Network (TLS/SSL) knowledge.
• Worked with browser automations.
• Knows their way around asynchronous programming.

Nice to have:

• Web development knowledge.
• Knows how to use CSS Selectors / XPaths for parsing.
• Experience working with Go & C++.
• Worked on browser source code.
• Knowledge of any front-end framework.
• Experience working with Pydantic, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy.
• Has experience working with Redis, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kibana and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus.
• Experience with machine learning that is scraping domain-specific.
• Has experience in building scalable systems.

Salary:

• Gross salary: from 23 000 PLN/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.