Automation Engineer, Data Collection and Publishing Tooling (Python/Node)

We are building the internal tooling for a short-form content operation and need the engineer who owns it. You would be the only engineering hire in the unit, working directly with the operations lead. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Build and maintain metrics ingestion for each social platform we publish to - Build publishing orchestration with per-channel rate limiting - Maintain network and device configuration tooling - Own the probes that detect when a channel's reach has been suppressed - Respond to infrastructure blockers raised by the operations team WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE - Strong Python or Node - Practical experience with headless browser automation, proxy configuration and browser fingerprint management, because platform data collection at scale needs all three - Above all, pragmatism about fragility: these integrations break constantly by their nature, and the job is building things that fail loudly rather than things that never fail HOW WE SCREEN A technical conversation plus a small take-home. Given a platform page, extract a defined set of metrics reliably. Then explain how you would detect your own scraper silently breaking. The second half is the part we care about most. ABOUT THE WORK Person.ai is a consumer AI companion app. We are building an in-house short-form content and distribution team rather than outsourcing it, so this is a long-term role inside a permanent unit, not a one-off project. START DATE We expect to start this role within about 4 weeks. We are sourcing early to find the right person. LOCATION Open worldwide. We work asynchronously and care about reliable overlap, not a specific timezone.