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Firecrawl is hiring for an experienced backend security engineer who will own the cloud layer, including security, deployment, and infrastructure. You’ll join sales conversations to interpret enterprise needs and build platform capabilities for large customers.
This is a 0-to-1 role with ownership from day one, combining hands-on engineering with enterprise collaboration. You’ll need deep cloud security and IAM fundamentals, experience with multi-cloud/hybrid setups, and proficiency in
The world's biggest companies want to build on Firecrawl. You'll own the cloud layer that makes that possible — the security, deployment, and infrastructure capabilities enterprises expect before they'll trust you with their web data. You'll sit alongside sales to understand exactly what a deal needs, then build it into the platform. This is a 0-to-1 role: real ownership from day one, not tickets in a backlog.
$235,000–$260,000/year
Competitive equity — details shared during the process.
San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Full-Time
5+ years in backend, platform, or cloud security engineering
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.
Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.
We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 175k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.
We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.
This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.
We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.
A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.
We'll dig into a real enterprise requirement from our world — the kind a security review or a big contract puts on the table — and talk through how you'd design and ship it. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason, not whether you memorized the answer.
Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.
Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the enterprise roadmap — paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you ship. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments.
We move fast after the trial.
If building the infrastructure the world's biggest companies trust with their web data sounds like your kind of problem, you should join us.