VirtusLab

Staff Data Engineer

VirtusLab

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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About the role

  • building web crawling or large-scale data systems from scratch
  • designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • leading complex technical initiatives
  • mentoring engineers and promoting a collaborative culture
  • operating ETL/ELT pipelines
  • extracting structured/unstructured web data

Requirements

  • Proven experience building web crawling or large-scale data systems from scratch
  • Strong architectural skills in designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Track record leading complex technical initiatives and driving architecture direction for teams
  • Demonstrated ability to evolve production systems incrementally while maintaining reliability
  • Experience mentoring engineers at all levels and promoting a collaborative culture
  • Deep background in large-scale data engineering (terabytes daily)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake)
  • Experience with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), and orchestration tools (Airflow)
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (GCP + AWS)
  • Expertise in designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Deep expertise in web crawling technologies and advanced scraping (Scrapy or similar)
  • Experience in extracting structured/unstructured web data and SERP extraction
  • Knowledge of proxy infrastructure management, anti-bot detection, and ethical crawling
  • Familiarity with crawling vendors and AI/LLM-based extraction approaches
  • Support the VirtusLab U.S. and international teams by lending senior technical expertise to client-facing activities, including technical discovery sessions, workshops, and solution architecture
  • Conduct requirements analysis and solution discovery, identifying business and technical needs
  • Provide technical consulting and advisory services, recommending appropriate data architectures aligned with customer goals
  • Prepare and review technical sections of commercial offers, including solution descriptions, statements of work (SoWs), project estimates, timelines, and delivery models
Benefits
  • self-development opportunities
  • good working conditions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
web crawlinglarge-scale data systemsscalable systems designfault-tolerant systemsETL pipelinesELT pipelinesdata engineeringscraping technologiesApache KafkaKubernetes
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationtechnical consultingrequirements analysissolution discoverycommunicationadvisory servicesarchitectural directionproject management