About the company
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. In September 2026, we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, and we're spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 192k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 40 repositories of all time.
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. That library is called Alexandria, and it starts now.
Our Values:
- Bias to action: We move fast, ship hard, and don’t wait to be told.
- Realistic about AI: We’re clear-eyed about what AI can and can’t do, and we keep pushing to use it where it actually works.
- All in: The next few years matter a lot, and we’re all in for them.
- Human connection: As intelligence gets cheaper, relationships with customers, partners, and each other matter more.
Responsibilities
- Own the main Firecrawl repo end to end: triage issues, review PRs, cut releases, write docs
- Keep the self-host experience easy: clone it, run it, keep it running, no surprises
- Build out new context primitives, starting with anydoc, our document parsing engine
- Make the calls on scope and API design for what belongs in a primitive and what doesn't
- Think about what makes an open source project spread on its own, and build toward that
- Ship code and review PRs every week. This is an engineering seat, not a community seat
Requirements
- A real open source track record: maintaining a popular repo, or landing significant contributions to one
- You care about the self-host experience and know what makes a repo easy to clone, run, and keep running
- Comfortable owning a repo end to end, from triaging issues and reviewing PRs to cutting releases and writing docs
- You've built parsers, crawlers, browser tooling, or developer libraries, and have taste in what belongs in a primitive and what doesn't
- You understand how open source turns into adoption and pay attention to why some projects take off
- High agency. Happy to make calls on scope, API design, and what gets merged
- Often a maintainer, ex-founder, early startup engineer, or builder with impressive public work
- 5+ years experience
- Work Authorization: Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US or Canada. In the US, we also support H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia). We’re not able to sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US. For Canada, we’ll consider work permit sponsorship case by case through our Toronto Hub.
Conditions
- Salary Range: $235,000–$260,000 USD/year (SF) / $217,000–$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto)
- Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
- Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ) or Toronto, ON (Toronto Hub). Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week.
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded).
- 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
- Benefits available to all employees include medical/dental/vision coverage (varies by location), life/disability insurance, virtual care, mental health support, fertility/family building support, retirement plans, and pre-tax benefits.
- SF-based perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, e-bike transportation.
- Toronto-based perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, transit covered (PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit, subway, streetcar, plus station parking).