Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Firecrawl

Backend Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building and maintaining Firecrawl's data infrastructure. Focused on ensuring reliable data collection against challenging web defenses with high throughput.

Posted 7/13/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in backend and infrastructure engineering, focusing on building reliable systems for data collection and maintaining high throughput under challenging conditions. Proven ability to debug complex issues and ensure system health in production environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Backend EngineeringNetworkingInfrastructure EngineeringProxy SystemsHigh-Throughput Systems

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Hard Skills

Data Collection InfrastructureSystem DebuggingCost Efficiency ManagementReliability EngineeringPerformance Optimization

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingAdaptabilityIterative Development

Industry Keywords

Production SystemsAdversarial Problem SpacesSystem Health ManagementThroughput Management

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Salary that makes sense — $200,000–$250,000/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
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