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.
About the job
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 Systems, Distributed Systems, Crawling, Indexing, Retrieval, Ranking Algorithms, Latency Optimization, Cost Optimization
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