Firecrawl
Cloud DevOps Engineer
$246K–$271K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Toronto Hub - Experience
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Visa sponsorship
- Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US or Canada. US support includes H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia); no new H-1B sponsorship for candidates outside the US. Canadian work permit sponsorship considered case by case through the Toronto Hub.
About the job
Build and operate cloud and on-prem infrastructure for Firecrawl’s web crawling, scraping, and search products, with a focus on scale, reliability, security, and cost.
What you'll do
- Design and operate GCP and on-prem infrastructure, including stateful Kubernetes workloads and zero-downtime upgrades.
- Own CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, enterprise controls, and incident response.
- Optimize infrastructure costs and work with product and search engineers to productionize services, retrieval, and ML workloads.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Experience operating stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at scale.
- Deep experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Docker, and Terraform.
- Production experience with large-scale, data-heavy systems such as search platforms or crawling or ingestion pipelines.
Nice to have
- MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience, including GPU workloads or model deployment pipelines.
- Hands-on Vespa experience; security and compliance infrastructure experience is also a strong plus.
Pay
$246,000–$271,000 USD/year (SF) (base salary); $204,000–$212,000 CAD/year (Toronto) (base salary)
Tools
GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Vespa
AI focus
Productionize retrieval and ML workloads; MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure, including GPU workloads and model deployment pipelines, is a plus.
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