Firecrawl
Open Source Engineer
$235K–$260K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Toronto Hub - Experience
- 5+ years
- Visa sponsorship
- Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US or Canada. In the US, supports H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia); cannot sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US. In Canada, work permit sponsorship is considered case by case through the Toronto Hub.
About the job
Own and improve Firecrawl’s open-source repositories, maintain self-hosting quality, and build new context primitives such as its document parsing engine.
What you'll do
- Maintain the main Firecrawl repo, including issue triage, PR reviews, releases, and documentation.
- Keep the self-host experience reliable and easy to use.
- Build context primitives and make decisions about their scope and API design.
What they ask for
- A track record maintaining a popular open-source repository or making significant contributions to one.
- Experience owning a repository end to end, including triage, PR review, releases, and documentation.
- Experience building parsers, crawlers, browser tooling, or developer libraries.
- Ability to make independent decisions about scope, API design, and contributions.
Nice to have
- Experience as a maintainer, ex-founder, early startup engineer, or builder with public work.
- Understanding of how open source projects gain adoption.
Pay
$235,000–$260,000 USD/year (SF) (base salary); $217,000–$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto) (base salary)
AI focus
Build open-source infrastructure and context primitives used to turn web content into data AI agents can use; the role specifically includes developing anydoc, a document parsing engine.
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