Backend Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will build and maintain infrastructure for reliable data collection at scale. This involves managing the proxy layer, improving success rates against aggressive site defenses, and handling heavy, spiky loads.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering
• Worked on networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems
• Relentless about reliability and comfortable in messy, adversarial problem spaces
• Can own a system end to end and keep it healthy in production
• Moves fast and closes the loop

Benefits

• Salary based on impact, not tenure
• Competitive equity
• 15 days mandatory PTO, more available after 24 days
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
• $100 USD/month wellness stipend
• $1,000 USD/year learning and development expense
• Team offsites
• 3 paid months sabbatical after 4 years
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
• Virtual care and health guide
• Mental health support via Talkspace

Before you apply

• 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, and E-3
• In Canada, work permit sponsorship considered case by case
• Process includes a 40-hour paid work trial

About the company

Firecrawl is a company that turns the web into data for AI agents using an API. They are building the largest repository of knowledge in the world.