YipitData

Web Scraping Engineer - Global Team (India)

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11 days ago
Remote, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Refactor existing scraping scripts to improve reliability, maintainability, and efficiency.
  • Design, build, and maintain robust web scrapers for complex and dynamic websites.
  • Use fingerprinting, cookies, headers, user-agent rotation, proxies, and request-signature techniques to avoid detection and blocking.
  • Manage dynamic content, complex DOM structures, browser rendering, and session or cookie lifecycles.
  • Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to gather requirements, align targets, and ensure data quality.
  • Develop monitoring and alerting solutions to identify scraper failures and availability issues.
  • Diagnose bottlenecks and scale scraping systems for efficiency, reliability, and performance.
  • Propose new tooling, methodologies, and technologies for web data extraction.
  • Provide documentation, support, and best practices to internal stakeholders.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience with web scraping frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Puppeteer.
  • Strong understanding of HTTP, RESTful APIs, HTML parsing, browser rendering, and TLS/SSL mechanics.
  • Expertise in browser fingerprint spoofing, fingerprinting, evasion strategies, and request-signature manipulation.
  • Deep experience managing cookies, headers, session states, and residential and data-center proxy rotations.
  • Experience with logging, metrics, and alerting for high availability.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and optimize scraper performance for efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Effective English communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Fully remote opportunity based in India.
  • Standard working hours are 11am–8pm IST, with flexibility.
  • Vacation time, parental leave, team events, and learning reimbursement.
  • Growth and development based on impact, ownership, and skill mastery.

Tech Stack

HTMLSelenium

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