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Search Engineer

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Contract

No sponsorship$190k-$260kDetected 9 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitRESTLLMsAgentic AI

About the role

  • Firecrawl's search product is one of our fastest-growing surfaces, and we need engineers who can make crawling, ranking, and retrieval fast, reliable, and cheap at scale.
  • Salary Range: $190,000-$260,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.
  • We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems behind Firecrawl Search
  • Own services end to end - design, ship, monitor, and iterate in production
  • Someone who optimizes for process over shipping
  • You'll build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index.
  • You'll own real infrastructure from day one - not tickets in a backlog.
  • 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 have 147k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day.
  • Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.
  • you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you ship.
  • If you want to build search infrastructure that serves the whole web at a cost that shouldn't be possible, you should join us.

Requirements

  • Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.
  • Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Compensation

  • $190,000-$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.)
  • Salary that makes sense - $190,000-$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure

Benefits

  • Own a piece - Gain competitive 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
  • 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
  • Supplemental options - Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.
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