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.