Senior Backend / AI Engineer - Scraping Platform
Mercado Libre24 hours ago
Bogotá, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve a distributed scraping platform using idempotency, retries, backpressure, rate limiting, circuit breakers, scheduling, and fault-tolerance patterns.
- Develop browser automation and scraping infrastructure with session management, proxies, IP rotation, fingerprinting, and anti-bot mechanisms.
- Build integrations for AI models and agents to make dynamic navigation and information-retrieval decisions.
- Own critical production components from design and implementation through observability, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Lead technically complex initiatives, define architectures, evaluate trade-offs, write RFCs, and support technical growth through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Strong backend development experience with Python and Go, plus knowledge of Node.js.
- Experience designing highly scalable distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures, messaging queues, concurrent processing, APIs, and resilience patterns.
- Experience with persistence and data-processing technologies, including SQL, streams, and object storage.
- Experience operating critical production systems, including observability, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Knowledge or experience with browser automation, large-scale scraping, networking, proxies, session management, fingerprinting, and anti-bot mechanisms.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Hybrid sites available in Bogotá, Colombia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
About Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre builds an e-commerce marketplace and fintech infrastructure for consumers and merchants across Latin America. It monetizes through marketplace transaction fees, payment processing (Mercado Pago), logistics and fulfillment (Mercado Envíos), advertising, and credit products. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, it operates in 18 countries and is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker MELI.