Platform Engineer

Role Description

You'll be a generalist force-multiplier across Firecrawl's platform, the engineer who drops into the highest-leverage problem of the week and ships the fix. One week it's performance, the next it's a gnarly customer-facing bug, the next it's tooling the rest of the team needs to move faster. You'll work across the whole stack and across teams, wherever the impact is highest. You'll own real problems from day one, not tickets in a backlog.

Qualifications

• 4+ years across full-stack or platform engineering
• Must already be authorized to work in the US or our eligible remote-hire regions

Requirements

• You're a strong generalist who's shipped across many parts of a system
• You thrive on variety and ambiguity and pick new things up fast
• You default to action and finish what you start
• You're the person teammates come to when something's on fire

Benefits

• Salary that makes sense — $195,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece — Up to 0.05% equity in what you're helping build
• Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
• Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
• Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
• Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
• Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
• Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
• Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids)
• Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance
• Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
• 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
• Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only)
• Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
• SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
• E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process

• Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you.
• Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other.
• Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll dig into a real problem from our world.
• Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work.
• Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Work with the team on a real, scoped problem off the platform board.
• Decision — We move fast after the trial.