Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Webflow is an agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences. The Staff Data Engineer will drive initiatives across Data Platform Engineering, designing and scaling batch, streaming, and real-time data solutions while improving data quality, observability, reliability, governance, and AI-assisted data engineering workflows.
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
Skills
- * Location: Remote-first (United States)
- * 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
- * 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
- To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment
Benefits
- 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.
- Inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- 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.
- Monthly localized stipends 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.
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