Experienced Web Scraping Engineer (Remote)

Source.ai; United States; Remote; USD 51,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxylabs, part of Source, is seeking a skilled scraping engineer to help build scalable scrapers and robust data pipelines for global-scale projects.

You will define resilient scraping strategies, unblock websites, and improve observability while developing back-end solutions for complex scraping and parsing challenges. Join a diverse team and contribute to enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience with Python and building scalable scrapers.
• Understanding of CS fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience with Git version control.
• Knowledge of unblocking websites for scraping and various scraping techniques.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable scrapers.
• Define resilient scraping strategies and unblock websites for scraping; improve system observability.
• 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

CS fundamentals

Git

Web scraping

Async programming

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Prometheus

SQLAlchemy

Pydantic

FastAPI

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 will:

• 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!