Product Engineer — Scrape

About this role

Lead ownership of Firecrawl's core scrape endpoint, transforming web URLs into clean, LLM-ready data. You'll drive product excellence across performance, reliability, output quality, and developer experience while experimenting rapidly to stay ahead of competitors.

What you'll do

• Own the scrape endpoint end-to-end, including API design, response formats, latency, reliability, and error handling
• Improve data extraction quality by handling edge cases like JavaScript-heavy sites, anti-bot systems, and messy HTML
• Iterate on markdown output structure and fidelity to ensure clean, LLM-optimized results
• Develop and refine structured extraction features (schema-based, JSON mode, prompt-based) for production reliability
• Dogfood the product continuously, monitor GitHub issues and support channels, and incorporate user feedback into decisions
• Run rapid product experiments with clear hypotheses, measurement, and quick iteration cycles

What they're looking for

• 3+ years shipping developer-facing products
• Experience with web scraping, crawling, or browser automation
• Data infrastructure and pipeline knowledge
• API design and developer experience optimization
• Full-stack engineering (frontend, backend, infrastructure)
• Product thinking and hypothesis-driven experimentation
• JavaScript rendering and anti-bot system understanding
• Data formatting and markdown quality standards

Benefits

• Salary: $180,000–$290,000/year (adjusted for location outside U.S.)
• Equity: Up to 0.15%
• Hybrid in San Francisco or fully remote (Americas time zones)
• Ownership of flagship product driving company strategy
• Small, technical 26-person team moving fast
• Work on infrastructure critical to AI applications