{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4250be48a18ea02b2882d868","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4250be48a18ea02b2882d868","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4250be48a18ea02b2882d868","title":"Cloud DevOps Engineer","description":"San Francisco HQ; Toronto Hub Full Time August 20, 2026CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER\r\nYou'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-TimeExperience: 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud InfrastructureWork 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\r\nFirecrawl 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 DODesign, build, and operate GCP and on‑prem infrastructure behind Firecrawl's productsRun large stateful and high‑throughput workloads on Kubernetes (search clusters, crawling fleets, queues, and databases) with zero‑downtime upgradesOwn CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automations, and containerized deployments across the platformDrive down infrastructure cost per request while traffic and data volume growBuild the observability that keeps latency, throughput, and reliability predictable, and define the SLIs, SLOs, and customer‑facing SLAs we hold ourselves toBuild and support our enterprise controls: SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, tenant isolation, private networking, and the infrastructure behind SOC 2 and customer security reviewsWork directly with product and search engineers to productionize new services, retrieval, and ML workloadsOwn the incident lifecycle with engineers, from on‑call and triage process to postmortems and resolutionWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORYou've operated stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes at real scale, not just stateless servicesYou 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 plusYou'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 plusYou care about latency, cost, and reliability in equal measureExperience with security and compliance infrastructure (SSO/SAML, audit logging, network isolation, SOC 2) is a strong plusYou're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped infrastructureWHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FORSomeone who needs a fully‑specced ticket to startSomeone who wants to specialize narrowly and hand off everything elseSomeone who optimizes for process over shippingA NOTE ON PACE\r\nWe 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\r\nAVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEESSalary that makes sense: $246,000–$271,000 USD/year (SF) / $204,000–$212,000 CAD/year (Toronto), based on impact, not tenureOwn a piece: Gain competitive equity in what you're helping buildGenerous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to rechargeParental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for all parentsWellness stipend: $100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you humanLearning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionallyTeam offsites: A change of scenery, minus the trust fallsSabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and newAVAILABLE TO US‑BASED FULL‑TIME EMPLOYEESFull coverage, no red tape: Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that worksLife & Disability insurance: Employer‑paid basic life and AD&D, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability. Coverage for life's curveballsVirtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for youMental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your scheduleFertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partnerEAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future‑you will thank youPre‑tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bitSupplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLifeAVAILABLE TO CANADA‑BASED FULL‑TIME EMPLOYEESFull coverage, no red tape: Extended health, dental, and vision through Manulife (Diamond, the top tier), 100% employer‑paid for you, your partner, and your kidsLife & Disability insurance: Employer‑paid life, AD&D, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability. Coverage for life's curveballsVirtual care: Dialogue Premium, so you can see a doctor or nurse from your couch, any hourMental health: Talkspace Elite, therapy and psychiatry on your scheduleFertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partnerRetirement: Group RRSP through Wealthsimple, so future‑you can thank youAVAILABLE TO SF‑BASED EMPLOYEESSF HQ perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energyE-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on usAVAILABLE TO TORONTO‑BASED EMPLOYEESToronto Hub perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, glass‑walled views down University Avenue, and a home base steps from Union StationTransit, covered: A PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit, subway, and streetcar, plus station parking if you drive to the train. Winter‑proof, on usINTERVIEW PROCESS\r\nApplication Review: Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us what you've built: clusters you've run, pipelines you've automated, incidents you've tamed. We care about what you've shipped, not where you went to school.Intro Chat (~25 min): A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.Technical Chat (~45 min): We'll dig into a real problem from our world (running stateful clusters on Kubernetes, scaling an index fleet under growing traffic, driving down cost per request) and talk through how you'd approach it. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason, not whether you memorized the answer.Founder Chat (~25 min): Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours): Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the product, paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides. 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Coverage for life's curveballsVirtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for youMental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your scheduleFertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partnerEAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future‑you will thank youPre‑tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bitSupplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLifeAVAILABLE TO CANADA‑BASED FULL‑TIME EMPLOYEESFull coverage, no red tape: Extended health, dental, and vision through Manulife (Diamond, the top tier), 100% employer‑paid for you, your partner, and your kidsLife & Disability insurance: Employer‑paid life, AD&D, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability. 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