Platform Engineer

📋 Description

• • You'll be a generalist force-multiplier across Firecrawl's platform, the engineer who drops into the highest-leverage problem of the week and ships the fix.
• • One week it's performance, the next it's a gnarly customer-facing bug, the next it's tooling the rest of the team needs to move faster.
• • You'll work across the whole stack and across teams, wherever the impact is highest.
• • You'll own real problems from day one, not tickets in a backlog.
• • Tackle the highest-leverage problem on the board, whatever it is that week.
• • Ship across the stack - backend, infra, tooling, and occasionally frontend.
• • Unblock other engineers by building the tools and fixes they need.
• • Own hard, cross-cutting problems that don't fit neatly on any one team.
• • Raise the bar on reliability and developer experience platform-wide.
• • You're a strong generalist who's shipped across many parts of a system.
• • You thrive on variety and ambiguity and pick new things up fast.
• • You default to action and finish what you start.
• • You're the person teammates come to when something's on fire.
• • 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 — $195,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure.
• • Own a piece — Up to 0.05% 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.
• • Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you.
• • Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep.
• • Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll dig into a real problem from our world — something cross-cutting and messy, the kind of thing that lands on the platform board — and talk through how you'd approach it across the stack.
• • Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work.
• • Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Work with the team on a real, scoped problem off the platform board — paid at a contractor rate.
• • Decision — We move fast after the trial.