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IT Engineer - Remote

You might know us as Scrapinghub. And now we’re Zyte.

Zyte

Employee count: 51-200

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About Us

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast, and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

The Role

Zyte is seeking a Senior IT Engineer with strong Business Systems and Automation experience to architect and operate the internal technology ecosystem that powers our global company.

This role extends beyond endpoint management and traditional IT support, as it treats internal IT as an engineering discipline, with code-first automation as the default approach. You will design and operate the backbone of Zyte’s internal SaaS platform, integrating systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, finance systems, HR platforms, engineering tools, and collaboration software into a coherent, automated architecture.
You will also play a key role in introducing AI-assisted and AI-driven workflows across the company, enabling teams to move faster through intelligent automation, copilots, and LLM-powered internal tools.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

  • Business Systems Engineering: Hands-on experience administering and integrating business-critical SaaS systems, such as:
    • Salesforce or HubSpot.
    • Customer support platforms (Zendesk, Intercom, etc.)
    • Billing or subscription systems (Stripe, Chargebee, etc.)
    • Collaboration and engineering tools (Atlassian, GitHub, Notion)
    • Ability to design reliable workflows and data synchronization across multiple SaaS platforms.
  • Engineer Internal Automation Systems: You will spend a significant portion of your time writing code and building automation tooling, not just configuring SaaS products.
    Using modern development environments (IDEs, CLIs, SDKs), you will build scripts, services, and integrations that automate Zyte’s internal operations. Typical work includes:
    • writing automation scripts in Python, Go, or similar languages
    • building internal CLI tools for common IT and business workflows
    • developing small internal services that integrate the SaaS platform
    • building event-driven automation pipelines using APIs and webhooks
    • developing internal bots and ChatOps integrations.
  • Build and Maintain SaaS Integrations: Design and implement reliable, API-driven integrations between business systems, including:
    • CRM automation across Salesforce / HubSpot
    • Syncing customer, billing, and product usage data
      Automating entitlement provisioning across internal systems
      Connecting support, product, and CRM workflows..
  • Develop Internal Tools: Build internal tools that improve operational efficiency across teams, like:
    • Internal CLI tools for IT and operations.
    • Automation services for onboarding and access management.
    • Data synchronization services between internal systems.
    • Dashboards and automation services for business operations.
    • ChatOps tools for Slack or internal collaboration platforms.
  • Introduce AI into Internal Workflows: Identify opportunities to use modern AI technologies to automate or augment internal operations, examples include:
    • AI-powered internal support assistants
    • LLM-driven knowledge retrieval across internal documentation
    • Automated ticket triage and resolution
    • AI copilots for internal SaaS workflows
    • Automated analysis of operational data
  • Design the Internal "IT Golden Path": Create automated and developer-friendly workflows for employees and teams, building, for example:
    • Automated onboarding and offboarding pipelines.
    • Identity and access provisioning automation.
    • Self-service automation for common IT tasks.
    • Internal developer-friendly APIs for business systems.
  • IT Service Management & Operations: Serve as the ultimate level of IT Support for end-users, delivering superior IT assistance to a global, remote workforce. Emphasize comprehensive root-cause analysis and a 'person-first' philosophy in service delivery.
  • Security & Compliance Engineering: Ensure continuous operational adherence to established ISO frameworks. Implement and administer comprehensive endpoint security measures, including Mobile Device Management (JumpCloud), enterprise-grade password management solutions, and conduct routine access audits to rigorously enforce Zero Trust architecture principles.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in IT Engineering, Systems Engineering, Business Systems Engineering, or Platform Engineering. in IT Engineering or Systems Administration; 3+ years operating in a senior engineering role responsible for internal business systems and automation in a modern SaaS or technology company..
  • Scripting Mastery: Strong scripting and programming ability in Python, Go, , Bash, Node.js.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Solid experience operating GCP & AWS environments (VPCs, IAM roles, EC2/S3).
  • API & Integration Engineering: Strong experience working with external APIs, including:
    • REST and GraphQL APIs
    • OAuth authentication flows
    • Webhook-based event systems
    • SaaS SDKs and integration frameworks.
  • Operating Systems: Deep working knowledge of macOS and Linux environments.
  • Identity & Security: experience implementing and managing:
    • SSO / SAML / SCIM provisioning
    • Identity lifecycle automation
    • Zero Trust access models
  • Compliance & Governance: Experience supporting or passing security and compliance audits, such as:
    • ISO 27001 | SOC2 | GDPR
  • Experience working in remote-first or globally distributed environments is strongly preferred

Preferred Skills

  • AI-Assisted Automation: Experience experimenting with or implementing AI-driven automation, such as:
    • LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
    • AI copilots for operational workflows
    • Semantic search or knowledge retrieval systems
    • Automated support or ticket triage using AI
  • Containerization: Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes for running internal IT microservices
  • SRE Mindset: Experience applying SLIs/SLOs to internal IT services to measure "uptime" of the employee experience.

Who You Are

  • Autonomous: You don’t need a manual. You prioritize complex backlogs independently and lead from the front.
  • People-Centric: You have great interpersonal skills and clear communication. You solve for the person, not just the machine.
  • AI-Driven: You are enthusiastic about leveraging AI tools to automate, enhance, and continuously improve internal IT business processes.
  • Security Minded: You understand the "why" behind security frameworks and MDM, balancing safety with organizational speed.
  • Growth-Oriented: You are proactive. When you see a gap in a process, you own the solution.

Benefits

  • Total Flexibility: We are 100% remote. Work from where you are most productive.
  • Innovation Culture: We encourage "hacking" internal processes. If a task is manual, we want you to automate it.
  • Cutting Edge: Work with a tech stack that mirrors our production environment—modern, fast, and open-source-centric.

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About Zyte

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You might know us as Scrapinghub. And now we’re Zyte. We’re game changers in web data extraction, obsessed with removing barriers so our customers can access valuable data. Quickly and easily, whenever and however they need it.

We’ve always been passionate about data and what it can do. And we’re here to connect our customers with clean, actionable web data. At any scale. Without coding hassles, getting banned or broken spiders.

At Zyte we believe that businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data. For more than a decade we’ve led the way in building powerful, easy to use ways to collect, format and deliver web data, quickly, dependably and at scale. And today the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage and drive sustainable growth.

Our company values

Open by default

  • We believe in open free flowing channels of information for all.

  • We’re open minded and embrace change.

  • We communicate openly and honestly with each other.

  • We encourage a flexible and diverse work environment.

Team Players

  • We help each other to do great work.

  • We treat each other with respect, even when we disagree.

  • We work in teams with humility and ambition.

  • We rely on each other and create the best solutions together.

Customer Centric

  • We put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

  • We listen to and understand our customer’s needs.

  • We go above & beyond to provide the best solutions for our customers.

  • Making our customers successful is everyone’s job.

Game Changers

  • We deliver innovation that matters.

  • We never settle, there is always an opportunity to do better.

  • We challenge our ideas of what’s possible.

  • We’re not afraid to take risks and fail.

Employee benefits

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Open source

Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.

Company events

Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.

Generous vacation

We have a generous 35 days of PTO to help encourage work life balance.

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