Data Engineering Internship – Airflow, NLP & Web Scraping (Pre-Junior / Production-Ready Only)

Important — Read Before Applying

This is NOT a beginner role.
If you have not built real pipelines using Airflow, processed text with NLP, or scraped data at scale, do not apply.

You are expected to deliver production-level work from week 1.

Required Experience (Mandatory)

You will be automatically rejected if you do not have:

• At least 1 real project combining scraping + processing + storage
• Hands-on experience with:
• Apache Airflow (DAGs, scheduling, retries, dependencies)
• Python (advanced level)
• Scrapy (spiders, pipelines, middleware)
• spaCy (NER, text preprocessing, custom pipelines)
• SQL (advanced queries + optimization)
• Strong understanding of:
• Data pipelines (ETL/ELT)
• Handling messy / unstructured data
• Writing scalable, fault-tolerant scraping systems

What You Will Do

• Build automated data pipelines using Airflow (DAG-based workflows)
• Develop and maintain web scraping systems using Scrapy
• Process and enrich text data using spaCy (NER, classification, cleaning)
• Store and structure scraped data into usable formats (DB / warehouse)
• Handle anti-bot challenges, rate limits, and scraping failures
• Ensure pipelines are resilient, scheduled, and production-ready
• Debug broken DAGs, failed jobs, and corrupted datasets

Strict Performance Rules

• Zero hand-holding. You are expected to debug pipelines independently
• Deadlines are absolute. Miss once → warning. Repeat → termination
• Daily reporting required (actual outputs, logs, issues)
• Pipelines must be:
• Repeatable
• Fault-tolerant
• Scalable
• “It works on my machine” is unacceptable

Disqualification Triggers

Immediate removal if:

• Your Airflow DAGs fail repeatedly and you can’t fix them
• Your scrapers get blocked and you don’t adapt
• You cannot explain your NLP pipeline (spaCy usage)
• You build fragile pipelines that break on real data
• You disappear or stop reporting

Selection Process (Aggressive Filtering)

• GitHub Review (must include scraping + pipeline work)
• Technical Task:
• Build a scraper + process text + schedule via Airflow
• Live Debugging Session (pipeline failure scenario)
• Final acceptance

Most applicants will fail before step 2.

What You Get (If You Pass)

• Real-world experience in:
• Data pipelines
• NLP processing
• Web scraping at scale
• Strong portfolio with production-grade systems
• Fast-track to a paid data engineering / NLP role
• Experience working under real constraints and pressure

Application Requirements

Submit:

• GitHub with:
• Scrapy project
• Airflow DAGs
• NLP / spaCy usage
• Description of one pipeline you built (architecture + challenges)
• Answer:

“How would you design a system to scrape, clean, and extract entities from thousands of web pages daily?”

Final Note

If you haven’t already worked with Airflow + scraping + NLP in real scenarios, this role will not work for you.

Pay: E£1,000.00 - E£8,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Are you familiar with Airflow?
• Are you familiar with Spacy?

Language:

• English (Required)

Work Location: Remote