Web Automation Engineer

Salary Range

• $150,000–$300,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country’s cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://posthog.com/handbook/people/compensation.)
• Equity Range: Up to 0.30%

Location

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote

Job Type

Full-Time (SF) OR Contract (Remote)

Experience: 3+ years

Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required for SF; N/A for Remote

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just a year, we’ve hit millions in ARR and 50k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.

Previously, we built Mendable, one of the first commercially available “chat with your data” applications. We sold to companies like MongoDB, Coinbase, Snapchat, and more. To do this, we spent a surprising amount of time building reliable infrastructure for getting clean data from the web. When we started to see our founding friends rebuilding the same thing, we thought we might be on to something.

Why Firecrawl

• Technical ownership – Lead critical browser technology and infrastructure
• Real impact – Directly shape how our browser stack drives our entire product
• High velocity – Rapid iteration and deployment of your work
• Small team, big ambition – Collaborate closely with founders, influencing key decisions and future directions

About the Role

In just a year, we’ve hit millions in ARR and 50k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data. We’re a small, fast-moving team building essential tools for the AI era. We value autonomy, clarity, and shipping fast.

You’ll work closely with the founders to implement and experiment with new techniques on the cutting edge of browser automation. You will experiment with applying SOTA and open-source models to generalize web extraction at scale, along with building better libraries and tools to help AI interact with the web

What You’ll Do

• Bring a minimum of 3 years of experience in development
• Show proficiency with advanced web automation, including topics such as

Web scraping with web driver frameworks

Bring your experience with LLM agents

Who You Are

• Curious: You experiment and have the execution skills to iterate and learn rapidly.
• Resourceful Problem-Solver: You take initiative and find solutions independently.
• Startup Passion: You thrive in small teams without the structure of a more mature organization. You love a scrappy, do-what-works, no-BS environment with tremendous growth potential.
• Ambitious and Hungry: Eager to learn, grow, and contribute something meaningful.
• Clear communicator: A talent for sharing information clearly and concisely with others

Bonus Points

• Have a deep understanding of headless browsers and web scraping.
• Are fascinated by AI and demonstrate this through experience with AI side projects.
• Are you looking for a challenge to pour your passion into

Experience with advanced web automation topics, such as

• Rotating Proxies
• Bot Fingerprinting

What it Means to Join Firecrawl

• High Leverage — Your processes directly amplify our growth.
• Autonomy — Own your domain; we care about outcomes, not hours.
• Remote-First Culture — Work at our new SF office, while collaborating with our remote team.
• Growth Opportunity — Early equity and a role that scales with the company.
• Creative Freedom — Experiment with new channels, formats, and automations. If it works, we run with it.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary that makes sense — $150,000–$250,000 (U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece — Up to 0.30% equity in what you’re helping build
• Full coverage, no red tape (SF Only) — Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover stuff
• Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads
• Take a break (seriously) — Unlimited PTO, minimum of 3 weeks off
• Gear up — Get the tools yo