Experienced Web Scraping Engineer (Remote)

Source; United States; Remote; USD 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning options

Mentorship

Team events

Overseas workation

Job summary

Oxylabs, part of Source, is hiring for a role focused on building scalable scrapers and back-end solutions for scraping and parsing at scale. You will define resilient scraping strategies, unblock websites for scraping, and improve system observability while maintaining and extending the current scraping infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has strong Python experience, solid CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with browser automation, asynchronous programming, and related tooling such as

Qualifications

• Experience with Python in a production environment.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, computability and complexity.
• Version control using Git.
• Experience unblocking websites for scraping.
• Familiarity with various scraping techniques and open-source tools.
• Comfort with using browser developer tools.
• Knowledge of network TLS/SSL.
• Experience with browser automation.
• Understanding of asynchronous programming.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Git

Web scraping

Dev Tools

TLS/SSL

Browser automation

Asynchronous programming

Tools

Redis

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Oxylabs is an enterprise-grade web data infrastructure, purpose-built for organizations operating at global scale. It helped define what public web data access could look like and still sets the standard others build against. That same ambition runs through the culture: engineers take ownership of problems no one else has solved and push each other to raise the bar.

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 4500 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discuss a different salary based on your skills and competencies.
• Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
• Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://source.ai/career/blog/benefits

Oxylabs is part of Source, a data ecosystem for a world built on intelligence. One of five independent technology companies connected by shared standards, expertise, and a belief in responsible access to web data.

Up for the challenge? Let’s talk!