Staff Data Engineer

Webflow

2d • $186,500 - $255,000 • Remote

About The Position

Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences that drive predictable growth and strengthen brand trust. Building at Webflow will need grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer who can take ownership of and drive key initiatives across Data Platform Engineering, including the data lake, event instrumentation, data quality, and data governance.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building and operating production data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong experience with Spark and distributed data processing, including designing and optimizing production data pipelines.
• Experience designing batch, real-time, and streaming data solutions using technologies such as Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and CDC.
• Experience implementing data quality, observability, and reliability across production data systems.
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex data engineering initiatives end-to-end, from technical design and decomposition through implementation and production.
• Strong Programming and SQL skills, with experience building reliable and maintainable data systems.

Nice To Haves

• Can navigate ambiguous problems, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and make pragmatic technical decisions.
• Think beyond individual pipelines and consider the end-to-end data ecosystem, from data producers through downstream consumers.
• Bring experience with data governance and privacy, including PII management, retention, deletion, data residency, GDPR, or CCPA.
• Bring experience with event instrumentation and governance, including event schemas, validation, and schema evolution.
• Collaborate with engineers on complex technical problems and help establish practical engineering best practices.
• Embrace AI and emerging technologies, applying them in your development workflow and helping the team adopt new tools through shared learnings and best practices.
• Stay curious and open to growth demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.

Responsibilities

• Design data solutions across batch, streaming, and real-time workloads.
• Design and build reliable data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, and Airflow/MWAA.
• Contribute to the evolution of data lake and data platform, including ingestion, processing, storage, and serving patterns.
• Build, maintain and scale cloud data infrastructure that includes Kafka, Airflow, Druid, EMR on EKS with reliability and observability in mind.
• Implement and improve data quality, observability, reliability, and governance across data pipelines and systems.
• Define and improve standards for event instrumentation and governance, including event schemas, validation, and schema evolution.
• Build platform solutions for centralized PII handling, data retention, deletion, and residency to support GDPR and CCPA requirements.
• Build agent harness capabilities that encode data engineering standards, pipeline patterns, and quality gates into AI tools, enabling agents to safely generate, review, and operate on data platform code.
• Contribute hands-on to complex technical initiatives, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Analytics Engineering and other teams.
• Build agent harnesses that embed data engineering standards, pipeline patterns, and quality gates into AI-assisted development workflows.

Benefits

• Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
• Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
• Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
• Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
• All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
• Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree