# Open Source 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: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/095c7ce7-5b17-432a-9ec6-83a7ca0060d1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-open-source-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Growth Team