# Search Engineer

**Company**: Firecrawl
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $190K – $260K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You'll build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index. Firecrawl's search product is one of its fastest-growing surfaces, and it needs engineers who can make crawling, ranking, and retrieval fast, reliable, and cheap at scale.

The salary range is $190,000-$260,000/year, with an equity range of up to 0.05%. The company offers a range of benefits, including generous PTO, parental leave, wellness stipends, and learning and development opportunities.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems

- Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows

- Improve ranking quality and freshness for LLM-driven retrieval

- Own services end-to-end, designing, shipping, monitoring, and iterating in production

- Work directly with the Head of Search and the rest of the search team on the roadmap

Requirements:

- 3+ years building production backend or infrastructure systems

- Experience with scalability, latency, and cost optimization

- Ability to own ambiguous problems and turn them into shipped systems

- Comfortable moving fast and closing the loop

The company operates at a high level of urgency and is looking for individuals who can keep up with its pace.

## Skills

### Required
- backend systems
- distributed systems
- scalability
- latency optimization
- cost optimization

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