187K–255K USD / year
Staff Data Engineer
DataRemote — United States
Published on 2026-10-20
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About this role
Own and drive key data platform initiatives spanning the data lake, event instrumentation, data quality, and governance. Design and operate reliable batch, streaming, and real-time systems, while contributing hands-on to complex technical work and mentoring engineers.
About the company
Webflow is a visual website design and CMS platform that lets teams build and publish production websites without hand-coding the front end.
The team
Product Data team; reports to the Manager, Data Engineering.
Stack
SparkKafkaIcebergAirflowMWAADruidEMR on EKSSpark Structured Streaming
What you'll do
- Design and build reliable batch, streaming, and real-time data pipelines.
- Evolve the data lake and platform across ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
- Scale cloud data infrastructure with a focus on reliability and observability.
- Improve data quality, governance, event instrumentation, and schema evolution.
- Build platform capabilities for PII handling, retention, deletion, and data residency.
- Develop AI agent harnesses that apply engineering standards and quality gates to data platform work.
- Troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with partner teams.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years building and operating production data pipelines and platforms.
- Strong Spark and distributed data-processing experience.
- Experience designing batch, real-time, and streaming solutions, including Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, or CDC.
- Experience with data quality, observability, reliability, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives from technical design through production.
- Strong programming and SQL skills.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with data privacy and governance, including PII management, GDPR, or CCPA.
- Experience with event schemas, validation, and schema evolution.
- Experience applying AI tools to engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Company equity in the form of RSUs.
- Annual company bonus program.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with most premiums covered by Webflow.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave, plus additional paid leave for birthing parents.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year.
- Monthly work and wellness stipends.