Cloud DevOps Engineer

Firecrawl•San Francisco, CA

1d•$240,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You'll build the cloud infrastructure that turns the open web into data — the platform beneath Firecrawl's crawling, scraping, and search products. We need engineers who can make that foundation — Kubernetes, storage, networking, deployments — fast, reliable, and cheap at web scale. You'll own real infrastructure from day one — not tickets in a backlog. 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 170k+ 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.

Requirements

Operated stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at real scale — not just stateless services
Deep experience with a major cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), Docker, and Terraform
Run large-scale, data-heavy systems in production — search platforms, crawling or ingestion pipelines, or comparable.
Care about latency, cost, and reliability in equal measure
Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped infrastructure

Nice To Haves

MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience (GPU workloads, model deployment pipelines)
Hands-on experience operating Vespa is a strong plus.
Experience with security and compliance infrastructure (SSO/SAML, audit logging, network isolation, SOC 2) is a strong plus — especially for the Core Platform focus

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate GCP and on-prem infrastructure behind Firecrawl's products
Run large stateful and high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes — search clusters, crawling fleets, queues, and databases — with zero-downtime upgrades
Own CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automations, and containerized deployments across the platform
Drive down infrastructure cost per request while traffic and data volume grow
Build the observability that keeps latency, throughput, and reliability predictable and define the SLIs, SLOs, and customer-facing SLAs we hold ourselves to.
Build and support our enterprise controls — SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, tenant isolation, private networking, and the infrastructure behind SOC 2 and customer security reviews
Work directly with product and search engineers to productionize new services, retrieval, and ML workloads
Own the incident lifecycle with engineers — from on-call and triage process to postmortems and resolution.

Benefits

Salary that makes sense — $240,000–$275,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
15 days mandatory PTO, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
12 weeks fully paid parental leave, for all parents
$100/month wellness stipend for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally for Learning & Development
Team offsites
3 paid months off after 4 years for Sabbatical
Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
401(k) plan
Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit
Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us