High-Impact Search Infrastructure Engineer

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range

Competitive equity

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning & Development

Team offsites

Sabbatical

Health, dental & vision

Job summary

Firecrawl is seeking a Search Engineer to build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems powering our fast and scalable search product. You’ll own infrastructure from day one, focusing on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You’ll work on latency, scale, and correctness as you push the system from prototype to production, collaborating with the Head of Search and the team to advance ranking and retrieval. This role is SF-based with hybrid work requirements.

Qualifications

• 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 ship, measure, and iterate over perfecting on paper.

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

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Latency sensitivity

Cost efficiency

End-to-end ownership

Job description

Firecrawl is seeking a Search Engineer to build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems powering our fast and scalable search product. You’ll own infrastructure from day one, focusing on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You’ll work on latency, scale, and correctness as you push the system from prototype to production, collaborating with the Head of Search and the team to advance ranking and retrieval. This role is SF-based with hybrid work requirements.