Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences that drive predictable growth and strengthen brand trust. Building at Webflow will need grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality.
We’re looking for a Senior Hosting Infrastructure Engineer to make our core product services more reliable, scalable, and efficient with eye toward future growth, while also helping build new internal processes to make our engineering teams more efficient.
About the role:
- Location: Remote-first: US and Canada: BC, and Ontario
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exempt
- 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.
- United States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
- Zone A: $212,000-255,000
- Zone B: $200- $240,000
- Zone C: $186,700-224,000
- Canada:
- 232,000-278,000 CAD
- United States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
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.
- Application Information:
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for an existing vacancy.
- Reporting to Senior Engineering Manager.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Infrastructure, you’ll …
- Create and test reliable cloud infrastructure services that support Webflow’s range of products.
- Lead initiatives to reduce triage load, increase reliability, and handle the growing scale of our customer’s needs.
- Employ tools like Pulumi, AWS, Cloudflare workers, Kubernetes, and more.
- Balance reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency concerns while refactoring and modernizing existing services.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver new solutions for services and ways of working that might not exist yet.
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews with your team.
- Participate in and continuously improve on-call and incident response processes.
- Enhance engineering speed and safety through standardized processes, automation, and cloud best practices.
- Mentor and teach junior engineers best practices and hard-earned lessons from your time as a developer.
- Give feedback to other teams on designs for tools and software solutions
About you:
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
You’ll thrive as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer if you:
- Have 8+ years of experience building, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems in a customer-facing environment that allows for little to no downtime.
- Hand-on experience building and scaling multi-region cloud environments on either AWS or GCP.
- Experience using Cloudflare workers and Cloudflare tooling.
- Experience with container-centric architectures built with tools like Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, etc.), ECS, or Mesos.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform or Pulumi.
- Experience with Agentic development.
- Enthusiasm for mentoring and sponsoring less-experienced engineers.
- Have strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Have familiarity with contributing to fullstack applications, services, and tools authored in TypeScript, Node, or Go.
- Have experience leading projects and mentoring or coaching junior engineers
- Strong results and impact on shipped projects
- 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.
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.
- Own it all the way. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we hold ourselves accountable to deliver outcomes — for each other, and for customers.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
- Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
- Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
- Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
- Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
Remote, together
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.
Stay connected
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Please note:
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be administered.
To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to 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, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes.
For information about how Webflow processes your personal information, please review Webflow’s Applicant Privacy Notice.
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