Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

At Webflow our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. As the pioneer of the Website Experience Platform (WXP) we’re redefining how teams Build Manage and Optimize for the web — combining visual development powerful content management systems AI-driven personalization seamless hosting and end-to-end analytics in a single unified platform. With AI at the core Webflow helps teams move faster create more performant digital experiences and scale without heavy engineering support. From independent designers and creative agencies to global enterprises hundreds of thousands of organizations use Webflow to turn ideas into reality — and to power what’s possible on the web.

We’re excited for a Senior Software Engineer Data Infrastructure to join our Data Platform team. In this role you’ll help design build and operate the core data systems that power analytics governance and intelligent decision-making across Webflow. You’ll work across infrastructure orchestration and metadata systems — ensuring that our data is discoverable compliant and trustworthy.

About the role:

• Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON Canada)

• Full-time

• The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location job-related experience knowledge qualifications and skills.

  • Zone A: $150100 - 207100

  • Zone B: $141600 - 194800

  • Zone C: $132100 - 184400

  • CAD $171000 - 235600

  • United States  (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)

  • Canada (figures cited below are in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC Canada)

This role is also eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program. Target amounts are a percentage of base salary and vary by career level. Payouts are based on company performance against established financial and operational goals.

Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

• Reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Data Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer Data Infrastructure you’ll …

• Build and operate core data infrastructure across Airflow Spark and AWS to support both batch and streaming pipelines ensuring reliability scalability and performance.

• Implement and extend metadata and catalog systems (e.g. OpenMetadata) to deliver capabilities like dataset discovery lineage and documentation — empowering data users with visibility and self-service.

• Develop platform capabilities and event governance frameworks that enable consistent event instrumentation and publishing across data systems ensuring schema integrity quality and compliance.

• Implement secure and compliant data access and policy enforcement leveraging IAM roles schema registries and automation to meet governance and residency requirements (GDPR CCPA).

• Design and operate resilient infrastructure — including VPCs networking high availability and disaster recovery — with Pulumi-based automation across compute storage and data lake components (S3 Iceberg).

• Collaborate with Analytics ML and Security teams to embed metadata-driven observability enforcement and streamlined onboarding of datasets pipelines and workflows into the platform.

Participate in incident response code reviews and design discussions contributing to an operationally excellent and collaborative team culture.

In addition to the responsibilities outlined above at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we'll help you incorporate them into your role.

About you:

You’ll thrive as a Senior Software Engineer if you:

• 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure platform or backend engineering with hands-on expertise managing systems like Kafka Spark and Airflow.

• Strong proficiency with cloud environments (compute storage networking IAM) and infrastructure as code using Pulumi or Terraform.

• Experience building and operating containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Understanding of the foundations of data governance and metadata management — including schema evolution lineage and access control.

• Familiarity with event instrumentation frameworks and governance practices ensuring event schemas naming conventions and data contracts remain consistent and high-quality.

• Familiarity with monitoring logging and observability tools ensuring reliability and performance across distributed systems.

• Strong problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity accelerate progress and amplify impact.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience contributing to or deploying data catalogs (DataHub OpenMetadata) or schema registries.

• Knowledge of privacy and compliance requirements (PII detection residency access audits).

• Interest in applying ML/AI techniques for catalog enrichment (e.g. embedding-based search documentation generation).

Our Core Behaviors:

• Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.

• Win together. We play to win and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.

• Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists we imagine what's possible.

• Deliver with speed quality and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it and we do so without lowering the bar.

Benefits & wellness

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing privately-owned company

• 100% employer-paid healthcare vision and dental insurance coverage for full-time employees (working 30+ hours per week) and their dependents. Full-time employees may also be eligible for voluntary insurance options where applicable in the respective country of employment

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers as well as an additional 6-8 weeks of pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents to be used before child bonding leave (note: where local requirements are more generous employees receive the greater benefit); full-time employees also have access to family planning care and reimbursement

• Flexible PTO for all locations and sabbatical program

• Access to mental wellness and professional coaching therapy and Employee Assistance Program

• Monthly stipends to support work and wellness

• 401k plan or pension schemes (in countries where statutorily required) and other financial wellness benefits like CPA and financial advisor coverage

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.

Be you with us

At Webflow equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives beliefs and experiences. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Webflow will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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