# Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Firecrawl

- Company: Firecrawl
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco HQ; Toronto Hub
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $235K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/6840bbee-aae5-4846-97a2-ec2e764ee75b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-backend-infrastructure-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering Team