Scraping Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll be an embedded member of a fast-growing AI startup team, owning the reliability and quality of a web extraction infrastructure that processes millions of pages daily through hundreds of scripts. Reporting to a Forward Deployed Engineer, this role is critical to keeping a high-throughput data pipeline running smoothly and accurately.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Monitor and triage a queue of broken scrapers and data quality alerts to keep operations running without interruption.

• Build and deploy new web scraping scripts for websites that need to be added to the extraction pipeline.

• Validate scraped data for accuracy and investigate any discrepancies that surface.

• Create dashboards to visualize and monitor scraped data in real time.

• Collaborate with AI agents to fill capability gaps, fix issues, and improve existing scripts.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 1+ years of hands-on, professional experience building or maintaining web scraping solutions.

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for building and debugging scraping scripts.

• Solid SQL skills for data querying and validation.

• Experience with Puppeteer or similar browser automation libraries.

• Experience debugging and fixing broken scrapers in production environments.

• Familiarity with message queues such as RabbitMQ and in-memory caching systems such as Redis.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent cloud infrastructure, including data warehouse tools like BigQuery.

• Comfort with bash scripting and git version control.

• Experience validating data quality and accuracy in extracted datasets.

• Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools is a plus.

• Strong async communicator who sends proactive updates and flags blockers early.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to scope project timelines independently in a fast-paced startup setting.

LOCATION

Fully remote, open to any time zone. You will need 8+ hours of daily availability with overlap during US business hours. Visa sponsorship is not available.