Senior Web Automation Engineer - Scale & Resilience

Firecrawl; San Francisco (CA); Hybride; USD 235 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Salary equity

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning & Development

Team offsites

Sabbatical

SF/TO headquarters perks

Résumé du poste

Firecrawl is seeking a Web Automation Engineer to keep our platform connected to the open web. You will research detection systems, implement robust automation, and ship fixes that improve reliability at scale.

You’ll work with JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python, dive into browser internals and network fundamentals, and contribute to production-grade scraping infrastructure. On-site in SF or Toronto with equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong JS/TS and/or Python for automation work.
• Deep understanding of browser internals and automation.
• Knowledge of HTTP/TLS and fingerprinting concepts.

Responsabilités

• Reverse engineer detection and challenge flows in modern sites.
• Identify signals that separate automated from human traffic.
• Replicate signals in test environments to validate approaches.
• Build automation, diagnostics, and monitoring tools for reliability.
• Own scrape success rate: measure, explain regressions, and fix.
• Roll improvements across the crawling fleet at scale.

Connaissances

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Browser automation

HTTP/TLS

Outils

Playwright

Puppeteer

CDP

Description du poste

Firecrawl is seeking a Web Automation Engineer to keep our platform connected to the open web. You will research detection systems, implement robust automation, and ship fixes that improve reliability at scale.

You’ll work with JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python, dive into browser internals and network fundamentals, and contribute to production-grade scraping infrastructure. On-site in SF or Toronto with equity and benefits.