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Staff Data Engineer

Data Engineer • Principal • Remote • Full-time European Union U.S. Remote, EU/EMEA

A Staff Data Engineer role owning key initiatives across Webflow's Data Platform Engineering, including the data lake, event instrumentation, data quality, and governance. Full-time, remote-first (US) position.

Responsibilities

  • Design data solutions across batch, streaming, and real-time workloads
  • Design and build reliable pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, and Airflow/MWAA
  • Contribute to the evolution of the data lake and data platform
  • Build, maintain and scale cloud data infrastructure: Kafka, Airflow, Druid, EMR on EKS
  • Implement and improve data quality, observability, reliability, and governance
  • Define standards for event instrumentation and governance
  • Build platform solutions for PII handling, retention, and GDPR/CCPA compliance
  • Embed data engineering standards and quality gates into AI-assisted workflows
  • Troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, collaborate with Analytics Engineering

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of data engineering experience building production pipelines and platforms
  • Strong experience with Spark and distributed data processing

What we offer

  • Remote-first, US-based role
  • Base pay: $186,500-$255,000 depending on zone
  • Company-wide bonus program

About the company

Webflow is an agentic web marketing platform helping modern marketing teams build and optimize high-performing web experiences.

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