Build and own crawling, indexing, ranking, and retrieval systems for Firecrawl Search. Focus on making them fast, reliable, cheap at scale for LLM-driven use cases. Requires 3+ years building production backend or distributed systems.
190k – 260k
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About the role
What You'll Do
Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems behind Firecrawl Search
Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows
Improve ranking quality and freshness for LLM-driven retrieval
Own services end to end — design, ship, monitor, and iterate in production
Work directly with the Head of Search and the rest of the search team on the roadmap
What We're Looking For
You've built and operated backend or distributed systems at real scale
You care about latency, cost, and correctness in equal measure
You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems
You move fast and close the loop — you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with search systems, indexing pipelines, ranking improvements
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