Search Engineer
About this role
Search Engineer at Firecrawl
Build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index. Firecrawl's search product is one of the fastest-growing surfaces, and this role owns real infrastructure from day one — crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems at scale.
What You'll Do:
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
What We're Looking For:
3+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems at real scale
Care about latency, cost, and correctness in equal measure
Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems
Move fast and close the loop — ship, measure, and iterate over perfecting on paper
Technical Gap This Hire Fills: Index-at-scale plus serving infra — billions of docs, freshness, dedup, incremental indexing.
Compensation: $190, 000–$260, 000/year + competitive equity. Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.
Company at a glance
Firecrawl provides web data extraction infrastructure for developers, enabling AI applications to access web data at scale. Founded by Mendable's creators and backed by enterprise customers like MongoDB and Coinbase, the company has achieved millions in ARR within its first year.
Top Benefits
- Early equity
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Values autonomy, clarity, and shipping fast
Small, fast-moving, technical team
High velocity with rapid iteration and deployment
Collaborate closely with founders, influencing key decisions
Outcome-focused rather than hours-focused
Remote-first culture with SF office option
Creative freedom to experiment with new approaches
Technical ownership and direct impact on product direction
Early-stage environment where roles scale with company growth
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