Scraping Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Maintain and monitor a triage queue, resolving broken scrapers and data quality alerts
• ▹Build and deploy new web scraping scripts for websites requiring data extraction
• ▹Validate scraped data for accuracy and investigate discrepancies
• ▹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

Requirements

• ▹1+ years of hands-on, professional experience building or maintaining web scraping solutions
• ▹Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js
• ▹Proficiency with SQL for data querying and validation
• ▹Experience with Puppeteer or similar browser automation libraries
• ▹Experience debugging and fixing broken scraping scripts in production environments
• ▹Familiarity with message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ) and asynchronous job processing systems
• ▹Experience with Redis or similar in-memory caching systems
• ▹Experience with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent cloud infrastructure
• ▹Comfort with bash scripting, git, and gRPC
• ▹Strong async communicator who flags blockers proactively and thrives with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• ▹Availability for 8+ hours per day with overlap during US business hours

Nice to have

• ▹Exposure to BigQuery or similar data warehousing solutions
• ▹Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote, any time zone welcome (with US business-hours overlap)

About the company

Clera is a fast-moving AI startup, with this role reporting to a Forward Deployed Engineer as an embedded team member.