Design, build, and operate GCP and on-premises infrastructure supporting Firecrawl’s products.
Run stateful, high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes, including search clusters, crawling fleets, queues, and databases, with zero-downtime upgrades.
Own CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and containerized platform deployments.
Reduce infrastructure cost per request as traffic and data volumes grow.
Build observability systems and define SLIs, SLOs, and customer-facing SLAs for latency, throughput, and reliability.
Build and support enterprise controls including SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, tenant isolation, private networking, and infrastructure supporting SOC 2 reviews.
Partner with product and search engineers to productionize services, retrieval systems, and ML workloads.
Own the incident lifecycle, including on-call, triage, postmortems, and resolution.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
Experience operating stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at significant scale.
Deep experience with a major cloud provider such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, along with Docker and Terraform.
Production experience operating large-scale, data-heavy systems such as search platforms, crawling systems, ingestion pipelines, or comparable workloads.
Experience balancing latency, infrastructure cost, and reliability.
Ability to independently own ambiguous infrastructure problems and deliver them to production.
MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience, including GPU workloads and model deployment pipelines, is preferred.
Hands-on experience operating Vespa is a strong plus.
Experience with SSO/SAML, audit logging, network isolation, SOC 2, and related security or compliance infrastructure is a strong plus.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Benefits
San Francisco, California location with hybrid work and required onsite attendance.
15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available after 24 days, excluding holidays.
12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
$100 monthly wellness stipend.
Up to $1,000 annually for learning and development.
Team offsites and a three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
US-based full-time employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employees covered at 100% and spouses or children at 50%.
Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance, plus optional supplemental insurance plans.
Telehealth, 401(k), FSA and commuter benefits, and pet insurance for eligible US-based employees.
SF-based employees receive office snacks, drinks, team lunches, and a loaner electric bike.
Interview process includes a paid, remote-friendly 1–2 week work trial paid at a contractor rate.