# Search 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/762b4426-b4aa-4377-96d3-51f40c59cbf7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-search-engineer/

## About the role

Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems behind Firecrawl Search Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows

## What they're looking for

- You've built and operated backend or distributed systems at real scale
- You care about latency, cost, and correctness in equal measure
- You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems
- You move fast and close the loop. You'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
- Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start
- Someone who wants to specialize narrowly and hand off everything else

Tags: Engineering Team