Open Source Engineer

Firecrawl is looking for a high-agency engineer to own our open source work. That starts with the main Firecrawl repo (180k stars and counting top 50 repositories of all time) which should stay the easiest thing in the category to self-host. It extends to the context primitives were open sourcing now starting with anydoc our document parsing engine. Youll keep the core repo healthy and growing build out the primitives and think about what makes each one spread on its own.

This is not a developer relations role. We want an engineer who ships the code reviews the PRs and makes the repos better every week. Community instincts help but engineering quality shipping velocity and a track record of work people actually use matter most.

Salary Range: $235000$260000 USD/year (SF) / $217000$233000 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

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Were not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada well consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub.

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. Its the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits solved.

In September 2026 we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital and were spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 183k 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 were just getting started.

Were 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. That library is called Alexandria and it starts now.

• Own the main Firecrawl repo end to end: triage issues review PRs cut releases write docs

• Keep the self-host experience easy: clone it run it keep it running no surprises

• Build out new context primitives starting with anydoc our document parsing engine

• Make the calls on scope and API design for what belongs in a primitive and what doesnt

• Think about what makes an open source project spread on its own and build toward that

• Ship code and review PRs every week. This is an engineering seat not a community seat

• A real open source track record: maintaining a popular repo or landing significant contributions to one

• You care about the self-host experience and know what makes a repo easy to clone run and keep running

• Comfortable owning a repo end to end from triaging issues and reviewing PRs to cutting releases and writing docs

• Youve built parsers crawlers browser tooling or developer libraries and have taste in what belongs in a primitive and what doesnt

• You understand how open source turns into adoption and pay attention to why some projects take off

• High agency. Happy to make calls on scope API design and what gets merged

• Often a maintainer ex-founder early startup engineer or builder with impressive public work

• Someone looking for a developer relations role. This is an engineering seat first

• Someone who wants community work to substitute for shipping code

• Someone who needs a mapped-out roadmap before theyll make a scope call

• Someone whos used open source but never maintained or owned a repo of real scale

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what were building wont stay open forever. If that excites you keep reading. If it doesnt no hard feelings but this role probably isnt for you.

• Salary that makes sense: $235000$260000 USD/year (SF) / $217000$233000 CAD/year (Toronto) based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what youre 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 $1000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

• Team offsites: A change of scenery minus the trust falls

• Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years do something fun and new

• Full coverage no red tape: Medical dental and vision (100% for employees 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

• Mental health: Talkspace therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• EAP: Free confidential counseling legal and financial consults and online will prep through Guardian

• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits: HSA FSA and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

• Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D accident critical illness hospital indemnity plus pet legal and identity protection through MetLife

• Full coverage no red tape: Extended health dental and vision through Manulife (Diamond the top tier) 100% employer-paid for you your partner and your kids

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid life AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care: Dialogue Premium so you can see a doctor or nurse from your couch any hour

• Mental health: Talkspace Elite therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• Retirement: Group RRSP through Wealthsimple so future-you can thank you

• SF HQ perks: Snacks drinks team lunches intense ping pong and peak startup energy

• E-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city on us

• Toronto Hub perks: Snacks drinks team lunches glass-walled views down University Avenue and a home base steps from Union Station

• Transit covered: A PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit subway and streetcar plus station parking if you drive to the train. Winter-proof on us

Application Review: Send us your resume and a link to something youve built. Repos you maintain contributions youve landed libraries people actually use. We care about what youve actually shipped not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (25 min): A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. Well talk about what youve been working on what drew you to Firecrawl and what youre looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (45 min): Well walk through a repo youve maintained and a real problem from ours: a self-host path thats gotten fragile a scope call on what belongs in a primitive or a PR queue thats outgrown one reviewer. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason about maintainership not whether you know our codebase yet.

Founder Chat (25 min): Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (40 Hours): Ship something real on one of our open source repos paid at a contractor rate. Its the truest signal for both sides. You see what maintaining Firecrawls open source work actually feels like and we see how you operate. Remote-friendly and well flex around your current commitments.

Decision: We move fast after the trial.

If you want to own the open source surface of one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world you should join us.

Apply now.

Required Experience:

IC