About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (Scraping & Scale) based in Chile.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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.
Conditions
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Full-time employment.
- Salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, and additional benefits are not specified in the provided job description.