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Senior Data Acquisition Engineer

Bluefish is an AI-driven mar-tech startup building a platform to help brands engage consumers on the emerging AI internet. We’re looking for a Senior Data Acquisition Engineer to own and evolve the large-scale web data collection systems that feed our products, building reliable, observable, and scalable scraping and ingestion infrastructure used across teams.

Skills

  • 5+ years building and operating production backend, data, or platform systems
  • Hands-on experience with web data acquisition, scraping, or large-scale crawling
  • Proficiency with browser automation tools and familiarity with browser behavior
  • Strong SQL and NoSQL experience
  • Experience designing systems with retries, error handling, testing, and observability
  • Practical knowledge of AWS production services, VPCs, and service-to-service communication
  • Solid networking fundamentals including TLS/SSL, timeouts, and failure modes
  • Proficiency with CSS selectors and XPath for data extraction

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable web data acquisition platform used by multiple teams
  • Create shared abstractions and tooling to simplify adding, maintaining, and operating scrapers in production
  • Make architecture tradeoffs balancing cost, reliability, and performance
  • Implement robust retry strategies, error handling, and failure recovery for ingestion pipelines
  • Add observability via logging, metrics, and alerting; monitor and improve data quality
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineering and product teams to support new data sources and requirements
  • Operate and maintain production systems on AWS, including networking and on-call responsibilities

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Advanced degree in a related field is a plus but not required

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity (Series A startup equity grant)
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Hybrid work policy with NYC office and remote flexibility
  • Generous paid time off and flexible vacation policy
  • 401(k) or retirement plan options
  • Professional development budget and learning opportunities
  • Modern tools, collaborative team, and high ownership roles
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