• Utilize sophisticated fingerprinting methods (cookies, headers, user-agent rotation, proxies) to avoid detection and blocking.
• Handle dynamic content, navigate complex DOM structures, and manage session/cookie lifecycles effectively.

Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams

• Work closely with analysts and other stakeholders to gather requirements, align on targets, and ensure data quality.
• Provide support, documentation, and best practices to internal stakeholders to ensure effective use of our web scraped data in critical reporting workflows.

Monitor and Troubleshoot

• Develop robust monitoring solutions, alerting frameworks to quickly identify and address failures.
• Continuously evaluate scraper performance, proactively diagnosing bottlenecks and scaling issues.

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Propose new tooling, methodologies, and technologies to enhance our scraping capabilities and processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, evolving bot-detection tactics, and novel approaches to web data extraction.

This is a fully-remote opportunity based in India. Standard work hours are from 11am to 8pm IST, but there is flexibility here.

You Are Likely To Succeed If:

• Effective communication in English with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 3+ 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 (e.g., browser fingerprint spoofing, request signature manipulation).
• Deep experience managing cookies, headers, session states, and proxy rotations, including the deployment of both residential and data center proxies.
• Experience with logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure high availability.
• Troubleshooting skills to optimize scraper performance for efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

What We Offer:

Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary:

• We care about your personal life and we mean it. We offer vacation time, parental leave, team events, learning reimbursement, and more!
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

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