Backend Infrastructure Engineer 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.

About Firecrawl

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 - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 150K+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

What You'll Do

Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers reliable data collection at scale
Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses
Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer
Push throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky, real-world load
Debug hard, intermittent failures across the stack and make them stay fixed

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In our first year, we hit 8 figures in ARR and 125k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.

We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure that superintelligence will use to gather data from the web. We ship fast and deep.

Why Firecrawl

Technical ownership. Own critical infrastructure end-to-end. No layers, no committees, no waiting for permission.
Real impact. Your work shapes the product directly. Ship something Monday, see it in customer hands by Friday.
High velocity. Rapid iteration, fast deployment, short feedback loops. We move at the pace of the problem.
Small team, big ambition. Work shoulder to shoulder with founders. Influence the decisions that define what Firecrawl becomes.

What it Means to Join Firecrawl

High leverage. Your work directly amplifies company growth. Every system you build, every process you ship, every customer you close compounds.
Autonomy. Own your domain. We care about outcomes, not hours.
Remote-first with an SF hub. Most of the team is remote, working across 10+ time zones. Our SF office is open for anyone who wants to work in person, and we bring the whole team together regularly for offsites.
Growth opportunity. Early equity and a role that scales with the company. Senior people get senior surface area.
Creative freedom. Experiment with new channels, formats, and automations. If it works, we run with it.

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