Firecrawl

Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Firecrawl
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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.

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About Firecrawl

11-50 employees

The Web Data API for AI