Senior Web Scraping Engineer - Scalable Data Extraction (Flexible Hours)

NielsenIQ; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Volunteer time off

LinkedIn Learning

Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Job summary

NIQ is seeking a seasoned scraping engineer to design distributed architectures that scale across thousands of domains. You will reverse engineer APIs and apps, bypass anti-bot checks, and lead innovations with Scrapy, Playwright, and headless drivers.

You’ll set up monitoring to detect blockers early and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role requires 5+ years in Python-driven scraping, deep anti-bot knowledge, and experience with proxies, TLS, and data storage formats like

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.
• You think independently and enjoy solving problems no one has solved before.
• Familiarity with structured storage formats (Parquet, Avro), or real-time stream processing.
• Good knowledge of databases like MongoDB, InfluxDB, and Redis, including how they work and how to optimize them.

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

Large-scale scraping

Anti-bot technologies

Scrapy

Requests

httpx

Selenium

Playwright

Proxies

TLS tweaking

Debugging

Parquet

Avro

MongoDB

InfluxDB

Redis

Tools

Scrapy

Requests

httpx

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

NIQ is seeking a seasoned scraping engineer to design distributed architectures that scale across thousands of domains. You will reverse engineer APIs and apps, bypass anti-bot checks, and lead innovations with Scrapy, Playwright, and headless drivers.

You’ll set up monitoring to detect blockers early and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role requires 5+ years in Python-driven scraping, deep anti-bot knowledge, and experience with proxies, TLS, and data storage formats like