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FirecrawlFirecrawlSan Francisco, CA

Search Engineer

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
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering

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

Skills

Backend SystemsDistributed SystemsCrawlingIndexingRetrievalRanking AlgorithmsLatency OptimizationCost Optimization
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