# Data Engineer, Ingestion Platform at Alt

- Company: Alt
- What the company does: Backed by First Round Capital.
- Company website: https://onlyalt.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $155K to $165K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alt/a4be912d-a166-4373-ac52-fdead5ffc463
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alt-data-engineer-ingestion-platform/

## About the role

Alt Value is our moat. It is only as good as the data underneath it — and that data lives on dozens of external marketplaces and auction houses that have no interest in making it easy for us to get.

## What they're looking for

- 3-4 years in data engineering or a closely adjacent seat
- Modern web scraping at scale — Playwright or comparable, plus the ability to impersonate a real browser at the network layer (TLS/request fingerprinting) when a plain HTTP client gets flagged. Selenium alone doesn't cut it anymore
- Strong Python, 3+ years hands-on. Solid SQL for analysis and transformation
- A pipeline you owned end to end in the past two years. Not a pipeline you contributed to. One that was yours when it broke
- Judgment on when to generalize and when to go bespoke — you don't rebuild the same infrastructure per source, and you don't force a one-size-fits-all approach onto a source that needs custom handling
- Orchestration in your hands, not your resume. Airflow, Dagster, or a comparable DAG system — you've built on it, been paged for it, and cleaned up after it

Tags: Product and Data