Firecrawl is the web data API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Turn any source into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers reliable data collection at scale Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses
What they're looking for
- You've worked on networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems
- You're relentless about reliability and comfortable in messy, adversarial problem spaces
- You can own a system end to end and keep it healthy in production
- You move fast and close the loop. You'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
- Someone who wants clean, well-defined problems only
- Someone who avoids on-call or production ownership
More about this role
You'll work on the infrastructure that makes Firecrawl fast and reliable against a web that constantly changes and fights back. This is deep systems work: keeping success rates high against sites with aggressive defenses, managing the proxy layer that powers reliable data collection at scale, and pushing throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky load. When Firecrawl "just works" on a site that tries hard to stop it, that's this team. You'll own real infrastructure from day one, not tickets in a backlog.
Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering
Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada, we'll consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub.
Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.
In September 2026 we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, and...
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