Firecrawl
Backend Infrastructure Engineer
About this role
Join Firecrawl's infrastructure team to build and maintain systems that reliably extract data from the web at scale, working on proxy layers, throughput optimization, and defeating anti-scraping defenses. You'll own critical infrastructure end-to-end in a fast-moving startup where systems reliability directly impacts the AI companies relying on the platform.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain infrastructure powering reliable data collection at scale
- Improve success rates against sites with aggressive anti-scraping defenses
- Manage proxy layer health, rotation, and cost efficiency
- Optimize throughput and reliability under heavy, unpredictable load patterns
- Debug and fix intermittent failures across the full stack
- Own production systems and maintain them with high reliability
What they're looking for
- Backend or infrastructure engineering (3+ years)
- Networking and proxy systems experience
- High-throughput system design
- Production debugging and reliability optimization
- Python, Go, or similar backend languages
- Monitoring and observability tools
- Adversarial problem-solving
- On-call and production ownership mindset
Benefits
- Equity up to 0.05%
- 15 days mandatory PTO, flexible beyond 24 days
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $100/month wellness stipend
- $1,000/year professional development budget
- 3 months paid sabbatical after 4 years
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Firecrawl
Firecrawl builds a web data extraction platform that transforms URLs into clean, LLM-ready data for AI applications. The company is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with customers and drive technical delivery, core platform engineers to own the scrape endpoint and product excellence, search and retrieval specialists to build information systems at scale, and Sales Engineers to help technical buyers adopt the platform.
- Website
- firecrawl.dev
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you debugged a hard, intermittent failure in a production system—what was your approach?
- Describe your experience building or optimizing systems that handle spiky, unpredictable load.