Product Engineer – Scrape

Firecrawl

Product Engineer at Firecrawl owning and improving the core scrape product API used by developers. Focused on delivering a high developer experience and ensuring robustness of the scraping service.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Puppeteer

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the scrape product end-to-end
Make 'just works' actually true
Obsess over the output, not just the fetch
Ship structured extraction that developers trust
Dogfood relentlessly
Run fast product experiments
Raise the bar on developer experience

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years shipping developer-facing products — ideally in scraping, crawling, browser automation, or data infrastructure
Obsessive about developer experience
Deep instincts for scraping and the messy web
Speaks both product and engineering fluently
Hands-on builder who ships
Has a feel for what makes data LLM-ready
Brings production instincts
Backgrounds that tend to do well: Engineers who've owned scraping, crawling, or data extraction products at developer-tools or data-infra companies. Full-stack engineers with a strong backend bias who've shipped APIs used by thousands of developers. Browser automation engineers (Playwright, Puppeteer, Chromium internals) who got frustrated by the distance between their work and the user experience. People who've built on top of Firecrawl, Apify, Bright Data, or rolled their own scraping stack — and cared enough about the product layer to go deeper than the fetch.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Salary that makes sense — $180,000–$290,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — Up to 0.15% 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 moms and dads
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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Hard Skills & Tools

scrapingcrawlingbrowser automationdata infrastructureAPIsdata extractionfull-stack developmentbackend developmentPlaywrightPuppeteer

Soft Skills

obsessive about developer experienceproduct and engineering fluencyhands-on builderproduction instincts