At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. It’s the web, made better.
We’re excited for a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our Data Platform team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in building robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure that powers our data operations. You will have the opportunity to optimize the performance of our data services and automate infrastructure management ensuring everything runs smoothly and reliably. Your expertise will be crucial in integrating and managing essential components like Kafka, Spark, and Airflow, providing a solid foundation for our data-driven products. If you are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to make a real impact, we’d love to connect with you!
About the role
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exempt
- Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager
As a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer , you’ll …
- Provision and deploy infrastructure using Pulumi for Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Athena, and other critical systems on AWS.
- Manage and maintain clusters, ensuring optimal performance and reliability, including implementing auto-scaling and right-sizing instances.
- Configure and manage VPCs, load balancers, and VPC endpoints for secure communication between internal and external services.
- Manage IAM roles, apply security patches, plan and execute version upgrades, and ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR.
- Design and implement high-availability solutions across multiple zones and regions, including backups, multi-region replication, and disaster recovery plans.
- Oversee S3 data lake management, including file size management, compaction, encryption, and compression to maximize storage efficiency.
- Implement caching strategies, indexing, and query optimization to ensure efficient data retrieval and processing.
- Spearhead initiatives for optimizing performance, capacity planning, ensuring fault tolerance, and implementing failure recovery across all infrastructure components.
- Implement monitoring and logging using tools like Datadog, CloudWatch and OpenSearch.
- Develop services, tools and automation to simplify infrastructure complexity for other engineering teams, enabling them to focus on building great products.
- Participate in all engineering activities including incident response, interviewing, designing and reviewing technical specifications, code review, and releasing new functionality.
- Mentor, coach, and inspire a team of engineers of various levels.
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 Data Infrastructure Engineer if you have:
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Infrastructure Engineer or in related roles like Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps or Backend Engineer.
- Strong experience with provisioning and managing data infrastructure components like Kafka, Spark, and Airflow.
- Proficiency with cloud services and environments (compute, storage, networking, identity management, infrastructure as code, etc.).
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and configurations, including VPCs, load balancers, and endpoints.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Bonus points if you have:
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
- Familiarity with multi-zone and multi-region high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
- Knowledge of compliance standards (GDPR, CCPA) and security best practices.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Obsess over customer experience. We deeply understand what we’re building and who we’re building for and serving.
- Move with heartfelt urgency. We have a healthy relationship with impatience, channeling it thoughtfully to show up better and faster for our customers and for each other.
- Say the hard thing with care. Our best work often comes from intelligent debate, critique, and even difficult conversations.
- Make your mark. We seek out new and unique ways to create meaningful impact, and we champion the same from our colleagues.
Benefits & wellness
- Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company
- 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers
- Flexible PTO with an mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off
- Access to mental wellness coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program
- Monthly stipends to support health and wellness
- Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs
- 401k plan and financial wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits for in-office workers
Temporary employees are not eligible for paid holiday time off, accrued paid time off, paid leaves of absence, or company-sponsored perks.
Be you, with us
At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.
Please note:
To join Webflow, you'll need valid U.S. or Canadian work authorization depending on the country of employment.
If you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check.
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