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3w PTO
12w maternity
12w paternity
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Your Role:
- 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.
What We're Looking For:
- 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.
Benefits Perks:
- Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days just ask.
- Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid for all parents.
- Full coverage medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids).
- Up to 0.05% equity and a $100/month wellness stipend.
Firecrawl
Firecrawl provides the easiest way to convert web content into clean, LLM-ready data for AI agents. With 147k+ GitHub stars and rapid growth to 8-figure ARR, we are a small, fast-moving team building infrastructure that other AI companies rely on.