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November 17

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Zyte

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API • Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce

Zyte is a company specialized in providing web data extraction solutions that are now powered by AI. They offer a range of products including the Zyte API, which handles ban management, AI scraping, and proxy solutions for seamless web data collection. Additionally, Zyte provides scalable cloud hosting for Scrapy spiders, enabling efficient management and automation of web scraping tasks. Zyte caters to a diverse set of industries, providing data for e-commerce, news, AI, job postings, real estate, and more, while emphasizing legal compliance in their operations. With a focus on streamlined and cost-effective data extraction services, Zyte supports businesses in accelerating their data projects and enhancing data-driven decision-making.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $3M Debt Financing on 2021-12

📋 Description

• - Debug and resolve API errors, failed requests, and integration issues • - Investigate website blocking behavior (e.g., bot detection, captchas, IP bans) • - Recommend and adjust scraping settings like browser fingerprinting, header tuning, proxies, and rendering modes • - Assist with custom setups and edge-case data extraction requests • - Support customers in deploying and managing spiders on our cloud platform • - Analyze logs and runtime behavior of spiders to diagnose failures or inefficiencies • - Help customers retrieve structured data using AI extraction and quickfixes • - Assist users with billing questions, plan upgrades, and usage diagnostics • - Write clear and concise explanations, technical walkthroughs, and documentation • - Collaborate with engineering/product teams to communicate bugs or suggest improvements based on user feedback • - Strong customer focus with a mindset for preventing future recurrence of issues and be an advocate for customers to get the best value possible. • - Demonstrate leadership and ability to work independently to resolve complex technical issues • - Maintain technical documentation, troubleshooting guides and AI bots • - Provide assistance to internal groups in Zyte to troubleshoot issues and make configuration changes • - Effectively collaborate within the team and with other teams to constantly improve the processes and tools for greater efficiency and better customer satisfaction • - Be available to participate in the weekend shift - approximately one weekend every month for additional compensation

🎯 Requirements

• - 3+ years of support or equivalent experience in a customer facing role • - Good understanding of HTTP, browser behavior, browser stack, headless browsers, web scraping techniques, and anti-bot mechanisms • - Strong grasp of Python to be able to write and debug code. Prefer familiarity with additional languages such as Javascript, Node.js, Typescript, Java, Javascript, .net/C#, Golang. • - Experience debugging REST APIs (using Postman, curl, or directly in code) • - Experience with web scraping tools or libraries (e.g., Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy) • - Good understanding of web applications, client utilities, browserstack, headless browsers and developer tools in browsers. • - Familiarity with tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Burp Suite etc to intercept and debug network traffic. • - Understand browser engines, browser fingerprinting, and ad-blocker mechanisms. • - Comfortable with Linux/UNIX or Mac Terminal command-line for efficient scripting and automation • - Excellent verbal and written English skills and ability to articulate a complex system or problem based on the type of audience • - Strong team player with good analytical and technical writing skills • - Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities and commitments

🏖️ Benefits

• - Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team. • - Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely. • - Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.