Support Engineer

Firecrawl•Toronto, ON

7d•$166,000 - $218,000•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a hands-on Support Engineer to make sure our customers succeed with Firecrawl, and to build the systems that let a small team support a fast-growing customer base. You'll diagnose complex API issues, help developers through integrations, and give our most important customers answers they can trust. You'll also be the one who notices the same problem keeps coming up and automates it away, using AI triage, internal tools, agents, or whatever the simplest fix turns out to be. You'll be the technical bridge between our users and the product. That means using good judgment about what matters most, sharing what you learn with the rest of the team, and owning your work end to end.

Requirements

You're product-minded. You have good instincts for what customers need and what matters most, and you make good calls on priorities and tradeoffs without being told
You're a pragmatic engineer with strong fundamentals in APIs, HTTP, and debugging, and you write TypeScript or Python. You reach for the simplest solution that works, not the most impressive one
You enjoy talking to customers. You explain technical ideas clearly, ask good diagnostic questions, and know when a customer needs a careful, personal answer instead of an AI-drafted one
You're automation-first. You've built an automation or internal tool that removed real manual work, and you measure yourself by the leverage you create, not the number of tickets you close
You're AI-native. You already use Claude, Cursor, agents, and MCP servers in your daily work, and you think in workflows and tooling, not just tickets
You're autonomous. You spot problems, decide on a plan, and see it through
You can move between a customer escalation, a bug repro, and an automation project in the same afternoon, and nothing gets dropped
You're a good teammate. You share context openly, make handoffs easy, and make the people around you more effective

Nice To Haves

Bonus if you've worked in a technical customer-facing role (support engineer, solutions engineer, developer support, implementation specialist, or CSE) or supported APIs, SDKs, or other developer tools
Bonus if you understand web scraping, browsers, proxies, or how the web works under the hood, have built with Firecrawl or a similar web data platform, or have shipped LLM-powered workflows in production

Responsibilities

Be the first line of technical support across our channels, with a focus on high-value and enterprise accounts
Diagnose API errors, failed scrapes and crawls, blocked sites, authentication problems, rate limits, and unexpected output. Go as deep as you need to, and bring in Engineering when it makes sense
Reproduce issues, escalate confirmed bugs with clear repro steps and full context, and follow up with the customer until it's resolved
Review customer workflows and integration plans, and suggest simple changes that make them more reliable and easier to maintain
Triage a busy queue across Slack, email, and chat. Decide what's urgent, what can wait, and which issues need a human instead of our AI agents, without losing momentum
Understand what the customer is actually trying to do, not just the question they asked, then weigh a quick workaround against a docs fix or a product change
Advocate for customers with Product and Engineering, using what you see in the queue to shape which bug fixes and API improvements get prioritized
Treat every repeated question or manual step as a chance to automate: AI triage, drafted replies, smart routing, account and usage enrichment, and at-risk account alerts
Build lightweight internal tools (debugging scripts, dashboards, agents), simple enough and good enough that others actually use them
Keep our AI support agents sharp: improve their knowledge sources, review where they go wrong, and decide what stays with humans
Write the troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and docs fixes that help customers, and our agents, find answers without opening a ticket
Coordinate handoffs across the support team and time zones, and share what you're seeing and building with Engineering, Product, and Growth

Benefits

Salary that makes sense: $193,000–$218,000 USD/year (SF) / $166,000–$200,000 CAD/year (Toronto), based on impact, not tenure
Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge
Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
Wellness stipend: $100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
Team offsites: A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
Full coverage, no red tape: Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works
Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs
Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you
Mental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner
EAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian
401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
Pre-tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit
Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife
Full coverage, no red tape: Extended health, dental, and vision through Manulife (Diamond, the top tier), 100% employer-paid for you, your partner, and your kids
Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs
Virtual care: Dialogue Premium, so you can see a doctor or nurse from your couch, any hour
Mental health: Talkspace Elite, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner
Retirement: Group RRSP through Wealthsimple, so future-you can thank you
SF HQ perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
E-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us
Toronto Hub perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, glass-walled views down University Avenue, and a home base steps from Union Station
Transit, covered: A PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit, subway, and streetcar, plus station parking if you drive to the train. Winter-proof, on us