Python Web Scraping Engineer - Fully Remote - £70k
Please note: to be eligible for this role you must be UK‑based with the unrestricted right to work in the UK. This organisation does not offer sponsorship.
My client is hiring a Senior Python Scraping Engineer to design, build, and operate high‑volume, highly resilient web scraping systems, with a specific and sustained focus on scraping Google at scale.
This is a specialist role. It is not suited to generalist data engineers who have only worked on light or opportunistic scraping. You will be working in hostile, rapidly changing environments where naïve techniques fail and deep expertise in bot detection and evasion is essential.
The role sits at the intersection of data engineering, reverse engineering, and large‑scale systems reliability, and plays a critical role in delivering accurate, timely, and trusted data.
My client is a leader in adopting AI‑assisted and agentic coding practices, and this role is ideal for engineers who actively use AI tools to improve productivity, reasoning, and system design.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and operate large‑scale scraping systems handling 10+ million requests per day, primarily targeting Google and Google‑like platforms.
- Build robust scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript‑heavy environments using browser automation and hybrid approaches.
- Continuously adapt to changes in markup, request flows, ranking logic, and anti‑automation mechanisms.
- Engineer extraction pipelines with a strong emphasis on correctness, consistency, and observability.
- Implement and maintain advanced anti‑bot evasion strategies, including:
- Proxy and request routing strategies
- Browser and headless fingerprinting
- CAPTCHA handling and mitigation
- Monitor system health, detect anomalies early, and debug complex production issues.
- Optimise performance, cost, and latency across large‑scale scraping infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with data engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ensure scraped data is reliable and usable.
- Produce clear documentation and operational runbooks to support long‑term maintainability.
Required Technical Skills
- Expert‑level web scraping skills using Python.
- Direct, hands‑on experience scraping Google at scale – this is essential.
- Deep understanding of:
- Anti‑bot and bot‑detection systems.
- Browser and network fingerprinting.
- CAPTCHA systems and mitigation techniques.
- Scaling scraping infrastructure reliably.
- Strong knowledge of HTTP, TLS, cookies, headers, redirects, and browser networking behaviour.
- Experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or equivalent frameworks.
- Comfortable designing asynchronous and concurrent scraping architectures.
- Proven experience running scraping systems at scale in cloud environments.
- Excellent debugging skills and the ability to reason about complex failure modes.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical behaviour.
To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact David Airey at 0191 338 7508 or d.airey@tenthrevolution.com.
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