Cloud DevOps Engineer

CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER You'll build the cloud infrastructure that turns the open web into data: the platform beneath Firecrawl's crawling, scraping, and search products. We need engineers who can make that foundation (Kubernetes, storage, networking, deployments) fast, reliable, and cheap at web scale. You'll own real infrastructure from day one, not tickets in a backlog. Salary Range: $246,000–$271,000 USD/year (SF) / $204,000–$212,000 CAD/year (Toronto) Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process. Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ) or Toronto, ON (Toronto Hub). On-site, five days a week. Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada, we'll consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub. ABOUT FIRECRAWL 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. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 180k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 50 repositories of all time, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight, working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You've operated stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at real scale, not just stateless services - You have deep experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS, or 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 - You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped infrastructure WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR - 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 A NOTE ON PACE 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. BENEFITS & PERKS AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES - Salary that makes sense: $246,000–$271,000 USD/year (SF) / $204,000–$212,000 CAD/year (Toronto), 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 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 mo