Search Engineer
About the role
You'll build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index. Firecrawl's search product is one of our fastest-growing surfaces, and we need engineers who can make crawling, ranking, and retrieval fast, reliable, and cheap at scale. You'll own real infrastructure from day one — not tickets in a backlog.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems behind Firecrawl Search
- Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows
- Improve ranking quality and freshness for LLM-driven retrieval
- Own services end to end — design, ship, monitor, and iterate in production
- Work directly with the Head of Search and the rest of the search team on the roadmap
Requirements
You've built and operated backend or distributed systems at real scale
You care about latency, cost, and correctness in equal measure
You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems
You move fast and close the loop — you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
Qualifications
Experience: 3+ years building production backend or infra systems
Skills
None specified
Benefits
- Salary Range: $190,000-$260,000/year (U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA)
- Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process
- Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, on-site required)
Pay
Salary Range: $190,000-$260,000/year (U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA)
Schedule
Full-Time