Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate GCP and on-premises infrastructure supporting Firecrawl’s products.
• Run stateful, high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes, including search clusters, crawling fleets, queues, and databases, with zero-downtime upgrades.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and containerized deployments.
• Reduce infrastructure cost per request as traffic and data volume grow.
• Build observability for predictable latency, throughput, and reliability; define SLIs, SLOs, and customer-facing SLAs.
• Build and support enterprise controls, including SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, tenant isolation, private networking, and infrastructure supporting SOC 2 and customer security reviews.
• Partner with product and search engineers to productionize services, retrieval systems, and ML workloads.
• Own the incident lifecycle, including on-call, triage, postmortems, and resolution.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience operating stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at scale.
• Deep experience with a major cloud provider, Docker, and Terraform.
• Experience running large-scale, data-heavy production systems such as search platforms, crawling systems, ingestion pipelines, or comparable infrastructure.
• Ability to balance latency, cost, and reliability.
• Ability to independently solve ambiguous problems and ship infrastructure.

Nice-to-haves

• MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience, including GPU workloads and model deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience operating Vespa.
• Experience with SSO/SAML, audit logging, network isolation, SOC 2, and related security or compliance infrastructure.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $240,000–$275,000 per year.
• Competitive equity.
• 15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available by request.
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• $100/month wellness stipend.
• Up to $1,000/year for learning and development.
• Team offsites.
• Three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for US-based full-time employees.
• Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Optional supplemental insurance plans.
• Telehealth, 401(k), FSAs, commuter benefits, and pet insurance.
• San Francisco office perks and an e-bike transportation loaner for SF-based employees.
• Paid work trial, with remote-friendly scheduling.