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FirecrawlFirecrawlSan Francisco, CA

Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure for reliable web data collection at Firecrawl, focusing on proxy layers, success rates against adversarial sites, and high-throughput systems under spiky loads. Requires 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering with strong ownership and reliability focus.

200k – 250k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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

What We're Looking For

  • You've worked on networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems
  • You're relentless about reliability and comfortable in messy, adversarial problem spaces
  • You can own a system end to end and keep it healthy in production
  • You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

  • Salary: $200,000–$250,000/year, based on impact
  • Equity: Up to 0.05%
  • Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, flexible after 24 days (holidays excluded)
  • Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid
  • Wellness stipend: $100/month
  • Learning & Development: Up to $1,000/year
  • Team offsites
  • Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years

Available to US-based full-time employees

  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees)
  • Life & Disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Pre-tax benefits (FSAs, commuter)
  • Pet insurance

Available to SF-based employees

  • HQ perks (snacks, team lunches, ping pong)
  • E-Bike transportation loaner

Skills

NetworkingProxiesBackend SystemsHigh-Throughput SystemsInfrastructure EngineeringReliability Engineering
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