3 months ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain infrastructure for reliable data collection at scale.
- Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses.
- Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer.
- Increase throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky real-world load.
- Debug difficult intermittent failures across the stack and implement lasting fixes.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience working with networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems.
- Ability to own systems end to end and keep them healthy in production.
- Comfort with reliability, on-call, debugging intermittent failures, and adversarial problem spaces.
- Must already be authorized to work in the US or eligible remote-hire regions; visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Benefits
- Remote in the Americas (UTC-3 to UTC-10) or based in San Francisco, CA.
- Full-time employment with 15 days mandatory PTO and flexible additional time off.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- $100/month wellness stipend.
- Up to $1,000/year for professional learning and development.
- Paid team offsites and a three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
- US-based full-time employees receive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, telehealth, 401(k), FSA, commuter benefits, and optional supplemental insurance.
- SF-based employees receive office snacks, drinks, team lunches, and an electric-bike loaner.
- Includes a paid 1–2 week remote-friendly work trial at a contractor rate.
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl builds a web data API that lets developers convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single call for AI products. It sells a usage-based SaaS/API adopted for data extraction, crawling, and in-product features by teams building agents, search, and automation. The company is privately held and operates in the AI, developer API, and web development markets.