Software Engineer, Data Acquisition

📋 Description

• Build and maintain production-grade web scraping systems — primarily in Rust — designing scrapers
• Operate and monitor a heterogeneous distributed infrastructure spanning multiple cloud providers
• Diagnose production issues from raw logs and telemetry, building observability into every system
• Design and implement proxy management, rotation strategies, and network-layer evasion techniques to
• Develop tooling for fleet health monitoring, automated alerting, and self-healing infrastructure
• Collaborate with analysts and researchers to understand data requirements, prioritize new source

🎯 Requirements

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience with strong systems or backend
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Go, Python, C++, Java, or similar) is
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP internals, CDNs, proxies, load
• Hands-on experience with web scraping or data acquisition at scale, including familiarity with
• Demonstrated experience operating heterogeneous distributed infrastructure (mixed OS, hardware
• Strong log analysis and monitoring skills: you can diagnose issues from raw logs and build

🎁 Benefits

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.
• Competitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance.
• Hardware & home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision), life insurance.
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location