Platform Engineer

You'll be a generalist force-multiplier across Firecrawl's platform, the engineer who drops into the highest-leverage problem of the week and ships the fix. One week it's performance, the next it's a gnarly customer-facing bug, the next it's tooling the rest of the team needs to move faster. You'll work across the whole stack and across teams, wherever the impact is highest. You'll own real problems from day one, not tickets in a backlog.

Salary Range: $195,000–$260,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.)

Equity Range: Up to 0.05%

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 4+ years across full-stack or platform engineering

Visa: Must already be authorized to work in the US or our eligible remote-hire regions. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 147k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

What You'll Do

• Tackle the highest-leverage problem on the board, whatever it is that week

• Ship across the stack - backend, infra, tooling, and occasionally frontend

• Unblock other engineers by building the tools and fixes they need

• Own hard, cross-cutting problems that don't fit neatly on any one team

• Raise the bar on reliability and developer experience platform-wide

What We're Looking For

• You're a strong generalist who's shipped across many parts of a system

• You thrive on variety and ambiguity and pick new things up fast

• You default to action and finish what you start

• You're the person teammates come to when something's on fire

What We're NOT Looking For

• A deep specialist who only wants to stay in one lane

• Someone who needs a narrow, stable remit

• Someone who waits to be told exactly what to do

A Note On Pace

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

• Salary that makes sense — $195,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure

• Own a piece — Up to 0.05% equity in what you're helping build

• Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge

• Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents

• Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

• Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls

• Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

• Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs