Senior Web Scraper & Architect — Flexible Hours (Python/Scrapy)

NielsenIQ; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Job summary

NIQ Digital shelf is seeking a skilled scraping engineer to design and build distributed architectures that scale across thousands of domains. You’ll reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps, bypass anti-bot measures, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with data extraction.

Join a global team and help deliver high-quality, actionable data fast and at scale while collaborating with customer success and data teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Python and large-scale scraping projects.
• Deep understanding of anti-bot technologies and how to bypass them, fingerprinting, WAFs, JavaScript challenges, etc.
• Experience working with Scrapy, Requests, httpx, Selenium, Playwright, or custom headless browser drivers.
• Skilled at handling proxies (residential, datacenter, rotating), session management, cookie injection, and TLS tweaking.
• Strong debugging skills across browser, HTTP traffic, and device-level interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed scraping architectures that can scale across thousands of domains.
• Reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps using tools like Frida, mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, burp and many more.
• Detect common anti-bot measures (like JavaScript checks or browser behavior detection) to build crawlers that adjust to appear more human-like.
• Lead technical innovation in scraping: identify edge cases, prototype new approaches, and share knowledge with the team.
• Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to detect blockers or failures early

Skills

Python

Scraping

Distributed systems

API reverse engineering

Proxies management

Debugging

Cloud/AWS

Linux

Tools

Frida

mitmproxy

Charles Proxy

Burp Suite

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

NIQ Digital shelf is seeking a skilled scraping engineer to design and build distributed architectures that scale across thousands of domains. You’ll reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps, bypass anti-bot measures, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with data extraction.

Join a global team and help deliver high-quality, actionable data fast and at scale while collaborating with customer success and data teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.