Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Firecrawl is an innovative company that transforms web data into usable formats for AI agents. The Backend Infrastructure Engineer will focus on building and maintaining the infrastructure that ensures reliable data collection and success rates against challenging web defenses.
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
Skills
- 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering
- You've worked on networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems
- You're relentless about reliability and comfortable in messy, adversarial problem spaces
- You can own a system end to end and keep it healthy in production
- You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
- 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
- Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit
- Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
- SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
- E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us
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