Platform Engineer

Youll be a generalist force-multiplier across Firecrawls platform the engineer who drops into the highest-leverage problem of the week and ships the fix. One week its performance the next its a gnarly customer-facing bug the next its tooling the rest of the team needs to move faster. Youll work across the whole stack and across teams wherever the impact is highest. Youll own real problems from day one not tickets in a backlog.

Salary Range: $195000$260000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your countrys cost of living.)

Equity Range: Up to 0.05%

Location: San Francisco CA or Remote (Americas UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 4 years across full-stack or platform engineering

Visa: Must already be authorized to work in the US or our eligible remote-hire regions. Were not able to sponsor visas right now though that may change down the line.

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 147k GitHub stars 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.

What Youll Do

• Tackle the highest-leverage problem on the board whatever it is that week

• Ship across the stack - backend infra tooling and occasionally frontend

• Unblock other engineers by building the tools and fixes they need

• Own hard cross-cutting problems that dont fit neatly on any one team

• Raise the bar on reliability and developer experience platform-wide

What Were Looking For

• Youre a strong generalist whos shipped across many parts of a system

• You thrive on variety and ambiguity and pick new things up fast

• You default to action and finish what you start

• Youre the person teammates come to when somethings on fire

What Were NOT Looking For

• A deep specialist who only wants to stay in one lane

• Someone who needs a narrow stable remit

• Someone who waits to be told exactly what to do

A Note On Pace

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.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

• Salary that makes sense $195000$260000/year based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece Up to 0.05% 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/month for the gym therapy massages or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development Expense up to $1000/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

Available to US-based full-time employees

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

• Life & Disability insurance Employer-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance coverage for lifes curveballs

• Supplemental options Optional accident critical illness hospital indemnity and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

• Doctegrity telehealth Talk to a doctor from your couch

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

• Pre-tax benefits Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

• Pet insurance Because fur babies are family too

Available to SF-based employees

• 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

Interview Process

Application Review Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us the range of what youve shipped and the fires youve put out. We care about what youve built 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 something cross-cutting and messy the kind of thing that lands on the platform board and talk through how youd approach it across the stack. 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 (1-2 weeks) Work with the team on a real scoped problem off the platform board 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 be the engineer who drops into the hardest problem of the week and ships the fix you should join us.

Apply now.

Required Experience:

IC