Search Engineer
remotemid$190K – $260K
via Ashby
About this role
SEARCH ENGINEER
You'll build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index. Firecrawl's search product is one of our fastest-growing surfaces, and we need engineers who can make crawling, ranking, and retrieval fast, reliable, and cheap at scale. You'll own real infrastructure from day one — not tickets in a backlog.
Salary Range: $190,000-$260,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.)
Equity Range: Up to 0.05%
Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 3+ years building production backend or infra systems
Visa: Must be authorized to work in the US or eligible remote-hire regions.…
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Skills match
For this role: go, rest, github
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Level fit
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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Skills in this role
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