Cloud DevOps Engineer

Youll build the cloud infrastructure that turns the open web into data: the platform beneath Firecrawls crawling scraping and search products. We need engineers who can make that foundation (Kubernetes storage networking deployments) fast reliable and cheap at web scale. Youll own real infrastructure from day one not tickets in a backlog.

Location: San Francisco CA (SF HQ) or Toronto ON (Toronto Hub). Hybrid onsite 3 days a week.

Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco CA (SF HQ) or Toronto ON (Toronto Hub). Hybrid onsite 3 days a week.

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5 years in DevOps Platform Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Were not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada well consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub.

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

In September 2026 we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital and were spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 187k GitHub stars putting us in the top 40 repositories of all time and developers agents and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare and were just getting started.

Were 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. That library is called Alexandria and it starts now.

• Design build and operate GCP and on-prem infrastructure behind Firecrawls products

• Run large stateful and high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (search clusters crawling fleets queues and databases) with zero-downtime upgrades

• Own CI/CD Infrastructure as Code automations and containerized deployments across the platform

• Drive down infrastructure cost per request while traffic and data volume grow

• Build the observability that keeps latency throughput and reliability predictable and define the SLIs SLOs and customer-facing SLAs we hold ourselves to

• Build and support our enterprise controls: SSO/SAML RBAC audit logging tenant isolation private networking and the infrastructure behind SOC 2 and customer security reviews

• Work directly with product and search engineers to productionize new services retrieval and ML workloads

• Own the incident lifecycle with engineers from on-call and triage process to postmortems and resolution

• Youve operated stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at real scale not just stateless services

• You have deep experience with a major cloud (GCP AWS or Azure) Docker and Terraform. MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience (GPU workloads model deployment pipelines) is a plus

• Youve run large-scale data-heavy systems in production: search platforms crawling or ingestion pipelines or comparable. Hands-on experience operating Vespa is a strong plus

• You care about latency cost and reliability in equal measure

• Experience with security and compliance infrastructure (SSO/SAML audit logging network isolation SOC 2) is a strong plus

• Youre comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped infrastructure

• Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start

• Someone who wants to specialize narrowly and hand off everything else

• Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what were building wont stay open forever. If that excites you keep reading. If it doesnt no hard feelings but this role probably isnt for you.

• Salary that makes sense: $246000$271000 USD/year (SF) / $204000$212000 CAD/year (Toronto) based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what youre helping build

• Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory anything after 24 days just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge

• Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid for all parents

• Wellness stipend: $100 USD/month for the gym therapy massages or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

• Team offsites: A change of scenery minus the trust falls

• Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years do something fun and new

• Full coverage no red tape: Medical dental and vision (100% for employees 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

• Mental health: Talkspace therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• EAP: Free confidential counseling legal and financial consults and online will prep through Guardian

• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits: HSA FSA and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

• Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D accident critical illness hospital indemnity plus pet legal and identity protection through MetLife

• Full coverage no red tape: Extended health dental and vision through Manulife (Diamond the top tier) 100% employer-paid for you your partner and your kids

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid life AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care: Dialogue Premium so you can see a doctor or nurse from your couch any hour

• Mental health: Talkspace Elite therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• Retirement: Group RRSP through Wealthsimple so future-you can thank you

• SF HQ perks: Snacks drinks team lunches intense ping pong and peak startup energy

• E-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city on us

• Toronto Hub perks: Snacks drinks team lunches glass-walled views down University Avenue and a home base steps from Union Station

• Transit covered: A PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit subway and streetcar plus station parking if you drive to the train. Winter-proof on us

Application Review: Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us what youve built: clusters youve run pipelines youve automated incidents youve tamed. We care about what youve shipped not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (25 min): A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. Well talk about what youve been working on what drew you to Firecrawl and what youre looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (45 min): Well dig into a real problem from our world (running stateful clusters on Kubernetes scaling an index fleet under growing traffic driving down cost per request) and talk through how youd approach it. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason not whether you memorized the answer.

Founder Chat (25 min): Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (40 Hours): Work with the team on a real scoped piece of the product paid at a contractor rate. Its the truest signal for both sides. You see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like and we see how you ship. Remote-friendly and well flex around your current commitments.

Decision: We move fast after the trial.

If you want to build the infrastructure that turns the whole web into data at a cost that shouldnt be possible you should join us.

Apply now.

Required Experience:

IC