Senior Data Acquisition Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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About Us

People Data Labs (PDL) is the provider of people and company data. We do the heavy lifting of data collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions. Our sole focus is on building the best data available by integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. Leading companies across the world use PDL's workforce data to enrich recruiting platforms, power AI models, create custom audiences, and more.

We are looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a "one-team, one-dream" mindset. Our customers are trying to solve complex problems, and we only help them achieve their goals as a team. Our Data Engineering & Acquisition Team ensures our customers have standardized and high quality data to build upon.

You will be crucial in accelerating our efforts to build standalone data products that enable data teams and independent developers to create innovative solutions at massive scale. In this role, you will be working with a team to continuously improve our existing datasets as well as pursuing new ones. If you are looking to be part of a team discovering the next frontier of data-as-a-service (DaaS) with a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions, this might be the role for you. We like our engineers to be thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as we continue to learn and grow from it.

What You Get to Do

• Use and develop web crawling technologies to capture and catalog data on the internet
• Support and improve our web crawling infrastructure
• Structure, define, and model captured data, providing semantic data definition and automate data quality monitoring for data that we crawl
• Develop new techniques to increase speed, efficiency, scalability, and reliability of web crawls
• Use big data processing platform to build data pipelines, publish data, and ensure the reliable availability of data that we crawl
• Work with our data product and engineering team to design and implement new data products with captured data, and enhance and improve upon existing products

The Technical Chops You'll Need

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Our Benefits

Comp : $160K - $200K

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