# Backend Infrastructure Engineer

**Company**: Firecrawl
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $200K – $250K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/6840bbee-aae5-4846-97a2-ec2e764ee75b?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

You will work on the infrastructure that makes Firecrawl fast and reliable against a web that constantly changes and fights back. This is deep systems work: keeping success rates high against sites with aggressive defenses, managing the proxy layer that powers reliable data collection at scale, and pushing throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky load.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build and maintain the infrastructure that powers reliable data collection at scale

- Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses

- Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer

- Push throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky, real-world load

- Debug hard, intermittent failures across the stack and make them stay fixed

**Requirements:**

- 3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering

- Experience with networking, proxies, or high-throughput backend systems

- Relentless about reliability and comfortable in messy, adversarial problem spaces

- Ability to own a system end to end and keep it healthy in production

- Fast-paced and iterative mindset

**Benefits & Perks:**

- Salary: $200,000–$250,000/year

- Equity: Up to 0.05%

- Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask

- Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid

- Wellness stipend: $100/month

- Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000/year

- Team offsites

- Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years

- Additional benefits for US-based full-time employees and SF-based employees

## Skills

### Required
- backend
- networking
- infrastructure engineering
- proxies
- high-throughput systems

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