Firecrawl
Search Engineer
$235K–$260K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 12, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Toronto Hub - Experience
- 3+ years building production backend or infra systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must already be authorized to work in the US or Canada. In the US, the company supports H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia); it 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
Build and operate the crawling, indexing, ranking, and retrieval infrastructure behind Firecrawl Search, improving its speed, cost, reliability, and freshness as usage grows.
What you'll do
- Design and build crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems.
- Reduce latency and cost per query while improving ranking quality and freshness for LLM-driven retrieval.
- Own services end to end in production, from design and launch to monitoring and iteration.
What they ask for
- Experience building and operating backend or distributed systems at real scale.
- Care about latency, cost, and correctness.
- Comfort owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems.
Pay
$235,000–$260,000 USD/year (SF) base salary; $217,000–$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto) base salary
AI focus
Build search infrastructure for LLM-driven retrieval and AI agents.
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