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
Own the main Firecrawl repo end to end: triage issues, review PRs, cut releases, write docs Keep the self-host experience easy: clone it, run it, keep it running, no surprises
What they're looking for
- A real open source track record: maintaining a popular repo, or landing significant contributions to one
- You care about the self-host experience and know what makes a repo easy to clone, run, and keep running
- Comfortable owning a repo end to end, from triaging issues and reviewing PRs to cutting releases and writing docs
- You've built parsers, crawlers, browser tooling, or developer libraries, and have taste in what belongs in a primitive and what doesn't
- You understand how open source turns into adoption and pay attention to why some projects take off
- High agency. Happy to make calls on scope, API design, and what gets merged
More about this role
Firecrawl is looking for a high-agency engineer to own our open source work. That starts with the main Firecrawl repo (180k+ stars and counting, top 50 repositories of all time), which should stay the easiest thing in the category to self-host. It extends to the context primitives we're open sourcing now, starting with anydoc, our document parsing engine. You'll keep the core repo healthy and growing, build out the primitives, and think about what makes each one spread on its own.
This is not a developer relations role. We want an engineer who ships the code, reviews the PRs, and makes the repos better every week. Community instincts help, but engineering quality, shipping velocity, and a track record of work people actually use matter most.
Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ years
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.
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