Senior Data Acquisition Engineer - Remote, Stock, Unlimited PTO

People Data Labs; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock

Competitive Salaries

Unlimited paid time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

Health, fitness, and office stipends

Work remotely from anywhere

Job summary

People Data Labs is hiring for a senior backend/data engineering role in a remote-first US environment. You will help build and scale our data acquisition and processing platform, capture and catalog data from the web, and deliver high-quality datasets for customers.

You will design distributed systems, manage data pipelines, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive new data products. A strong focus on reliability, observability, and performance is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building or operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture and improvement of our data acquisition and processing platform, increasing reliability, throughput, and observability.
• Use and develop web crawling technologies to capture and catalog data on the internet.
• Build, operate, and evolve large-scale distributed systems that collect, process, and deliver data from across the web.
• Design and develop backend services that manage distributed job orchestration, data pipelines, and large-scale asynchronous workloads.
• Structure and model captured data, ensuring high quality and consistency across datasets.
• Continuously improve the speed, scalability, and fault-tolerance of our ingestion systems.
• Partner with data product and engineering teams to design and implement new data products powered by the data you help collect, and enhance and improve upon existing products.

Skills

Backend systems

Python/Go/Rust

Distributed systems

Linux

Web crawling

Education

Bachelors degree in CS/math/engineering

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Airflow

Databricks/Spark

SQL/data warehousing

Job description

People Data Labs is hiring for a senior backend/data engineering role in a remote-first US environment. You will help build and scale our data acquisition and processing platform, capture and catalog data from the web, and deliver high-quality datasets for customers.

You will design distributed systems, manage data pipelines, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive new data products. A strong focus on reliability, observability, and performance is required.