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YipitData is looking for a Web Scraping Specialist to join their Data Solutions team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in designing, refactoring, and maintaining web scrapers that power critical reports across the organization. This role involves ensuring data ingestion processes are resilient, efficient, and scalable, directly supporting multiple business units and products.
As a Web Scraping Specialist at YipitData, the candidate will be expected to:
- Refactor and maintain web scrapers to improve reliability and efficiency.
- Implement advanced scraping techniques, including fingerprinting methods.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and ensure data quality.
- Monitor and troubleshoot scraping performance, addressing failures and bottlenecks.
- Drive continuous improvement by proposing new tooling and methodologies.
The company requires following skills and experience:
- 4+ years of experience with web scraping frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, or Puppeteer).
- Strong understanding of HTTP, RESTful APIs, HTML parsing, browser rendering, and TLS/SSL mechanics.
- Expertise in advanced fingerprinting and evasion strategies.
- Experience managing cookies, headers, session states, and proxy rotations.
- Experience with logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure high availability.
YipitData offers:
- Comprehensive benefits and perks.
- Competitive salary.
- Vacation time and parental leave.
- Learning reimbursement.
YipitData (Alternative)
YipitData is a market-leading data and analytics firm, analyzing billions of data points daily to deliver detailed insights across diverse industries like consumer brands, technology, and healthcare. Utilizing proprietary technology, they identify, license, clean, and analyze crucial data for global investment funds and corporations. A fast-growing company with a people-first culture, YipitData is backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners. With a global presence spanning multiple offices in North America and Asia, they continue to expand their reach and impact in global markets.