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Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Firecrawl
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Hybrid (San Francisco; Toronto)$235k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Backend Infrastructure Engineer role at Firecrawl focusing on infrastructure for fast, reliable data collection at scale, including proxy layer management, high-throughput backend systems, and end-to-end ownership of infrastructure from day one.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers reliable data collection at scale
  • Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses
  • Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer
  • Push throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky, real-world load
  • Debug hard, intermittent failures across the stack and make them stay fixed

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering

Skills

Required:NetworkingProxiesBackend systems

Benefits

  • Salary: $235,000–$260,000 USD/year (SF) / $217,000–$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto)
  • Competitive equity; details shared during the process
  • 15 days PTO (plus discretionary time beyond 24 days)
  • 12 weeks parental leave (fully paid)
  • Wellness stipend $100 USD/month
  • Learning & Development up to $1,000 USD/year
  • Team offsites
  • Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years
  • Medical, dental, vision (US-based)
  • Life & Disability insurance
  • Virtual care and health support
  • Mental health resources
  • Fertility and family building benefits
  • Retirement and pre-tax benefits (HSA/FSA, etc.)
  • SF HQ and Toronto hub perks
  • Transit and commuting support for Toronto-based employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Firecrawl

The web data API for AI

Firecrawl is a web data infrastructure platform that converts websites into clean, structured data optimized for AI applications through a simple API. Originally built as an internal tool at Mendable to solve their own data ingestion challenges, the team recognized the broader need for reliable web data extraction and transformed it into a standalone product. The platform combines web search, scraping, and AI-powered parsing into a unified solution, focusing on the core developer priorities of reliability, speed, and ease of use. By abstracting away the complexities of web data extraction, Firecrawl serves as the foundational data layer that enables AI applications to seamlessly access and process web content in the exact format they need.

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