About this Position
As a Data Platform Engineer — External Data Acquisition, you will build and operate ASTRO's platform for acquiring data from external sources, including websites, web/mobile applications, APIs, public datasets, and third-party data providers.
A significant part of this role focuses on production-grade web and application data acquisition for pricing and market intelligence use cases. You will own the acquisition layer—from understanding external systems and extracting data to delivering reliable landing data for downstream processing.
Focus: External Data Acquisition · Web & App Scraping · Python · HTTP/API · Data Pipelines · Reliability
As our Astronaut, your missions are:
- Build and maintain reliable web/app crawlers, scrapers, and external API integrations across e-commerce, marketplace, retail, and other external sources.
- Analyze browser, mobile application, API, and network traffic to understand how data is delivered and design the appropriate acquisition approach and runtime, from direct HTTP/API extraction to browser automation.
- Build acquisition systems that remain reliable as external websites, applications, APIs, and data contracts evolve.
- Handle real-world source complexity such as sessions, tokens, pagination, dynamic content, rate limits, retries, concurrency, and partial failures.
- Build resilient and maintainable acquisition systems with appropriate testing, idempotency, deduplication, retries, safe reruns, data-quality validation, monitoring, and alerting.
- Operate acquisition workloads using appropriate workflow orchestration, compute, data storage/warehousing, and cloud infrastructure.
- Continuously improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership, including evaluating build-vs-buy approaches for external data.
- Explore new technologies and AI-assisted development or automation to improve how external-data pipelines are built, operated, and maintained.
- Collaborate with Pricing, Data Warehouse Engineering, Data Analysts, and other stakeholders to turn external-data needs into sustainable platform capabilities.
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