Staff Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Webflow; United States; On-site; USD 213,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Health coverage

Parental leave

Flexible vacation

Mental health resources

401(k) match

Wellness stipends

WIN bonus program

Job summary

Webflow is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own key initiatives across the Data Platform, including the data lake, event instrumentation, data quality, and governance. You will design data solutions across batch, streaming, and real-time workloads using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, and Airflow/MWAA, while scaling cloud infrastructure such as EMR on EKS and Druid.

You will lead data engineering efforts end-to-end, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Analytics Engineering and other teams to embed

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering and building/operating production data pipelines.
• Strong experience with Spark and distributed data processing.
• Experience designing batch, real-time, streaming solutions using Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and CDC.
• Experience implementing data quality, observability, and reliability across production data systems.
• Cloud data infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Led complex data engineering initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong programming and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Design data solutions across batch, streaming, and real-time workloads.
• Build reliable data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow/MWAA.
• Evolve data lake and platform including ingestion, processing, storage, serving patterns.
• Maintain and scale cloud data infra including Kafka, Airflow, Druid, EMR on EKS with reliability.
• Improve data quality, observability, reliability, governance across pipelines.
• Define event instrumentation standards, schemas, validation, schema evolution.
• Build governance for PII handling, retention, deletion, residency (GDPR/CCPA).
• Develop AI-assisted data platform tooling and data engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate across Analytics Engineering teams.

Skills

Spark

Kafka

SQL

Cloud infra

CI/CD

Python

Data governance

Data quality

Leadership

Observability

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent

Tools

Iceberg

Airflow/MWAA

EMR on EKS

Druid

Spark Structured Streaming

Job description

Webflow is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own key initiatives across the Data Platform, including the data lake, event instrumentation, data quality, and governance. You will design data solutions across batch, streaming, and real-time workloads using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, and Airflow/MWAA, while scaling cloud infrastructure such as EMR on EKS and Druid.

You will lead data engineering efforts end-to-end, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Analytics Engineering and other teams to embed