Firecrawl
Platform Engineer
About this role
Join Firecrawl as a Platform Engineer to solve high-impact problems across the full stack in a fast-moving AI infrastructure startup. You'll be a generalist troubleshooter handling performance, customer-facing bugs, tooling, and cross-cutting platform challenges, owning real problems from day one in a small team environment.
What you'll do
- Address the highest-leverage technical problem each week across backend, infrastructure, tooling, or frontend
- Ship fixes and features across the entire stack to unblock other engineers
- Build tools and infrastructure that enable team velocity and developer experience
- Own hard problems that span multiple teams and don't fit neatly into one lane
- Improve platform reliability and raise engineering standards across the codebase
- Respond rapidly to production issues and customer-facing bugs
What they're looking for
- Full-stack or platform engineering (4+ years)
- Backend development and system design
- Infrastructure and DevOps practices
- Cross-functional problem-solving and debugging
- Rapid learning and context-switching
- Performance optimization and reliability improvements
- Communication and unblocking teammates
Benefits
- Salary $195,000–$260,000/year based on impact
- Up to 0.05% equity in the company
- 15 days mandatory PTO plus flexible time off (24+ days)
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
- $100/month wellness stipend and $1,000/year learning budget
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees)
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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 owned a critical production issue end-to-end—what was the problem, and how did you solve it?
- Describe a project where you had to ship across multiple parts of a system (backend, infra, frontend). How did you approach it?