Cloud DevOps Engineer

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.

You've operated stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at real scale — not just stateless services

You have deep experience with a major cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), Docker, and Terraform; MLOps or ML-serving infrastructure experience (GPU workloads, model deployment pipelines) is a plus

You've run large-scale, data-heavy systems in production — search platforms, crawling or ingestion pipelines, or comparable. Hands-on experience operating Vespa is a strong plus.

You care about latency, cost, and reliability in equal measure

Experience with security and compliance infrastructure (SSO/SAML, audit logging, network isolation, SOC 2) is a strong plus — especially for the Core Platform focus

You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped infrastructure

Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start

Someone who wants to specialize narrowly and hand off everything else

Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.

Salary that makes sense — $240,000–$275,000/year, based on impact, not tenure

Own a piece — 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/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/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 spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works

Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs

Supplemental options — 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 — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too

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