Web Scraping Specialist
About The Position
We are hiring on behalf of our client who is seeking a Web Scraping Specialist to join a specialized technical team focused on building the infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data for the training of advanced AI models. This organization operates a massive distributed crawler and manages complex pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of data points, including videos, transcripts, and audio files. The successful candidate will lead efforts to gather and analyze data, optimize scraping processes, and support the scaling of high-quality public web data accessibility. This role is ideal for a lean, technical builder who thrives in a fast-paced environment without bureaucratic red tape.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to extract data from complex websites with minimal supervision, supported by a portfolio of past projects.
- Advanced skills in Python or JavaScript, specifically with libraries and frameworks such as BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, or Selenium.
- Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming, multithreading, and distributed scraping architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the Document Object Model (DOM).
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra), including the ability to design efficient storage solutions.
- Experience deploying and managing large-scale scraping jobs using cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to apply machine learning algorithms for data cleaning, categorization, or predictive analysis
- Active participation in relevant open-source projects
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and refine high-performance code to extract data from various online sources, ensuring maximum reliability and efficiency.
- Manage complex data retrieval tasks, including handling pagination and dynamic content loaded via AJAX.
- Clean and format extracted data to ensure it meets rigorous quality standards for downstream analysis and processing.
- Store and manage scraped data in appropriate databases, optimizing for both access speed and long-term data integrity.
- Regularly monitor scraping processes and infrastructure to identify and resolve issues, ensuring a continuous and stable data flow.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and equity package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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