Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (Scraping & Scale)

Accountabilities:

The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer will lead the development and maintenance of scalable data collection systems, ensuring reliable ingestion, efficient orchestration, and high-quality data availability for downstream applications.

• Design and manage web scraping infrastructure using residential proxy networks, TLS fingerprinting, browser automation, and session rotation.
• Build fault-tolerant, high-throughput scraping pipelines to collect data from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and other web sources.
• Develop distributed queues and workflow orchestration systems using technologies such as Temporal, Ray, Apache Kafka, and Celery.
• Architect storage environments for structured and unstructured data using Parquet, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, and Amazon S3.
• Implement monitoring, automated alerts, and recovery mechanisms to identify platform changes, blocking patterns, and proxy failures.
• Maintain reliable data ingestion at scale while minimizing downtime and supporting daily processing of millions of records.
• Enable downstream AI and analytics workflows through robust, well-structured data infrastructure.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate brings substantial experience in web scraping, data engineering, or reverse engineering, along with strong programming skills and expertise in distributed systems and data storage technologies.

• At least 4 years of experience in high-volume web scraping, data engineering, or reverse engineering.
• Strong experience handling advanced anti-bot systems, including Cloudflare, Akamai, and PerimeterX, using TLS impersonation, browser automation, and proxy management.
• Advanced proficiency in Python or Go.
• Extensive experience with browser automation and scraping frameworks such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, or Selenium.
• Practical knowledge of distributed systems and task queues, including Temporal, Ray, Kafka, and Redis.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with modern analytical data lakes and data warehouses.
• Ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant systems and troubleshoot complex data ingestion challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience extracting short-form video content and user metadata from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
• Experience integrating scraping outputs with vector databases and real-time AI processing queues.

Benefits:

• Fully remote work arrangement.
• Full-time employment.
• Salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, and additional benefits are not specified in the provided job description.