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Firecrawl

Backend Infrastructure Engineer

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Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers reliable data collection at scale.
  • Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses.
  • Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer.
  • Push throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky, real-world load.
  • Debug hard, intermittent failures across the stack and ensure they stay fixed.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Experience with networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems.
  • Relentless focus on reliability and comfort in messy, adversarial problem spaces.
  • Ability to own a system end to end and maintain it in production.
  • Preference for shipping, measuring, and iterating over perfecting on paper.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $200,000–$250,000/year based on impact.
  • Up to 0.05% equity in the company.
  • Generous PTO with 15 mandatory days and additional days available upon request.
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
  • $100/month wellness stipend for gym, therapy, or other wellness activities.
  • Up to $1,000/year for professional development expenses.
  • 3 paid months off after 4 years for a sabbatical.

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