Firecrawl
A Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Firecrawl builds and maintains the high-throughput systems that enable reliable data collection from the web at scale. The role involves owning the proxy layer, improving success rates against aggressive site defenses, and ensuring system health under heavy, spiky load. Engineers in this position debug complex, intermittent failures and drive reliability improvements for an AI infrastructure platform.
Firecrawl is a web context API for AI agents that enables searching, scraping, parsing, and interacting with the live web at scale. It converts any web source into clean Markdown or structured JSON data ready for use in AI models and applications. Firecrawl also supports browser-based page interaction, media parsing, and seamless integration with AI agents and MCP clients.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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62% above the average for this role