Support Engineer
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Were looking for a hands-on Support Engineer to make sure our customers succeed with Firecrawl and to build the systems that let a small team support a fast-growing customer base. Youll diagnose complex API issues help developers through integrations and give our most important customers answers they can trust. Youll also be the one who notices the same problem keeps coming up and automates it away using AI triage internal tools agents or whatever the simplest fix turns out to be.
Youll be the technical bridge between our users and the product. That means using good judgment about what matters most sharing what you learn with the rest of the team and owning your work end to end.
Salary Range: $193000$218000 USD/year (SF) / $166000$200000 CAD/year (Toronto)
Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
Location: Toronto ON (Toronto Hub) preferred or San Francisco CA (SF HQ). On-site five days a week.
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 3 years
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.
We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 180k GitHub stars putting us in the top 50 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 working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. 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.
Be the first line of technical support across our channels with a focus on high-value and enterprise accounts
Diagnose API errors failed scrapes and crawls blocked sites authentication problems rate limits and unexpected output. Go as deep as you need to and bring in Engineering when it makes sense
Reproduce issues escalate confirmed bugs with clear repro steps and full context and follow up with the customer until its resolved
Review customer workflows and integration plans and suggest simple changes that make them more reliable and easier to maintain
Triage a busy queue across Slack email and chat. Decide whats urgent what can wait and which issues need a human instead of our AI agents without losing momentum
Understand what the customer is actually trying to do not just the question they asked then weigh a quick workaround against a docs fix or a product change
Advocate for customers with Product and Engineering using what you see in the queue to shape which bug fixes and API improvements get prioritized
Treat every repeated question or manual step as a chance to automate: AI triage drafted replies smart routing account and usage enrichment and at-risk account alerts
Build lightweight internal tools (debugging scripts dashboards agents) simple enough and good enough that others actually use them
Keep our AI support agents sharp: improve their knowledge sources review where they go wrong and decide what stays with humans
Write the troubleshooting guides runbooks and docs fixes that help customers and our agents find answers without opening a ticket
Coordinate handoffs across the support team and time zones and share what youre seeing and building with Engineering Product and Growth
Youre product-minded. You have good instincts for what customers need and what matters most and you make good calls on priorities and tradeoffs without being told
Youre a pragmatic engineer with strong fundamentals in APIs HTTP and debugging and you write TypeScript or Python. You reach for the simplest solution that works not the most impressive one
You enjoy talking to customers. You explain technical ideas clearly ask good diagnostic questions and know when a customer needs a careful personal answer instead of an AI-drafted one
Youre automation-first. Youve built an automation or internal tool that removed real manual work and you measure yourself by the leverage you create not the number of tickets you close
Youre AI-native. You already use Claude Cursor agents and MCP servers in your daily work and you think in workflows and tooling not just tickets
Youre autonomous. You spot problems decide on a plan and see it through
You can move between a customer escalation a bug repro and an automation project in the same afternoon and nothing gets dropped
Youre a good teammate. You share context openly make handoffs easy and make the people around you more effective
Bonus if youve worked in a technical customer-facing role (support engineer solutions engineer developer support implementation specialist or CSE) or supported APIs SDKs or other developer tools
Bonus if you understand web scraping browsers proxies or how the web works under the hood have built with Firecrawl or a similar web data platform or have shipped LLM-powered workflows in production
A ticket closer. If you measure success by volume instead of leverage this isnt the role
An engineer whod rather not talk to customers
Someone who reaches for the impressive build when a docs fix would do
Someone whos cautious about working with AI and agents day to day
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: $193000$218000 USD/year (SF) / $166000$200000 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 role excites you. Show us an automation or internal tool you built that got rid of real manual work or a tricky customer issue you took all the way to the root cause. 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): Walk us through automations or tools youve actually built: what problem each one solved why you built it the way you did and what youd change now. Well also talk about how you decide whats worth automating where AI fits into your workflow and where a human still needs to be in the loop. Come ready to go deep on your own work. We care how you reason not whether you have a perfect answer.
Founder Chat (25 min): Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.
Paid Work Trial (40 Hours): Answer real customer support tickets and build automations and tools that help our support team paid at a contractor rate. Its the truest signal for both sides.
Decision: We move fast after the trial.
If youd rather build the system that answers the next hundred tickets than answer them one by one you should join us.
Apply now.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
The web crawling, scraping, and search API for AI. Built for scale. Firecrawl delivers the entire internet to AI agents and builders. Clean, structured, and ready to reason with.