Senior Staff Software Engineer, Webflow

Data Governance and Metadata Systems

$154.2-247.7k

Salary range is applicable to US rates only and varies on location; Canadian Salary: CAD 199,300 - CAD 281,100. Offers bonus program + RSUs

Kafka

Airflow

Terraform

Spark

Datadog

Pulumi

Expert level

Remote from Canada, Ireland, UK, US

More information about location

No-code web design and hosting platform

Be an early applicant

No-code web design and hosting platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSNo-CodeWeb Design

Be an early applicant

$154.2-247.7k

Salary range is applicable to US rates only and varies on location; Canadian Salary: CAD 199,300 - CAD 281,100. Offers bonus program + RSUs

Kafka

Airflow

Terraform

Spark

Datadog

Pulumi

Expert level

Remote from Canada, Ireland, UK, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSNo-CodeWeb Design

Company mission

To give creative designers the tools they need to create powerful and beautiful websites, all without having to code.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You’ll thrive as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance and Metadata Systems if you:
Bring 10+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale, high-impact platform initiatives
Have hands-on expertise in metadata systems and data catalog platforms (e.g., OpenMetadata, DataHub), with experience building lineage and governance workflows
Understand the architectural and legal implications of data compliance and translate requirements into scalable, automated enforcement mechanisms
Are deeply familiar with modern data infrastructure - Kafka, Spark, Iceberg, Airflow (MWAA), S3, EMR on EKS, Clickhouse, Druid - and the trade-offs involved in scaling them
Have designed secure, production-grade environments using EKS, VPCs, Pulumi/Terraform, and observability tooling like OpenSearch and Datadog
Have applied ML/AI to infrastructure or platform features - including embedding pipelines, vector search, or RAG - and understand how to build with LLMs and vector databases
Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy working at the intersection of infrastructure, compliance, and enablement - where cross-functional alignment and long-term thinking are key
Stay curious and open to growth - actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact

What the job involves

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance and Metadata Systems to help us build the foundation for trusted, secure, and intelligent data systems that power governance, enable self-service, and unlock AI-driven insights across Webflow
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance and Metadata Systems, you’ll …
Design, implement, and evolve Webflow’s Central Data Catalog, delivering the foundation for metadata ingestion, lineage, classification, access control, and policy enforcement - enabling trust, discoverability, and governance at scale
Architect privacy-aware infrastructure to meet regulatory requirements (e.g., EU/US residency, PII detection, audit logging, policy-as-code) and advance Webflow’s compliance readiness
Lead our governance and compliance strategy, partnering with legal, security, and analytics to embed metadata-driven enforcement into the platform
Apply ML/AI techniques to platform features, including RAG-based natural language search, vector similarity search, and AI-generated documentation for the data catalog. Bring experience with vector databases, embedding models, and LLM integration
Scale and harden our distributed data infrastructure - including Kafka, Airflow, EMR on EKS, Clickhouse - ensuring performance, reliability, and elasticity across batch, streaming, and ML workloads
Drive architectural improvements across networking (VPC), compute (EKS), observability (OpenSearch, Datadog), and CI/CD - optimizing for security, cost-efficiency, and high availability
Build infrastructure APIs and automation frameworks that enable secure, self-service onboarding of pipelines, datasets, and streaming resources such as Kafka topics and connectors
Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team, shaping engineering standards, reviewing designs, and guiding delivery on high-impact, cross-functional initiatives

Our take

No-code development systems allow users to create and publish the kind of output that was once only possible with the help of a team of developers. Webflow is one such platform that allows non-developers to create professional websites without knowing any code. It joins others such as Pantheon, Weebly, Squarespace, and Wix in a hotly-contested low-code development market. While competition is high, so too is demand, with low-code platforms accounting for more than 65% of application development activity in 2024.

The popularity of platforms such as Webflow is perhaps not surprising, as low-code development is usually cheaper for companies to implement and reduces time to market. Webflow has been used by over 3.5 million designers and teams to create sites for companies including enterprise brands such as Dell, Rakuten, UpWork, and Petal. It raised a large amount of funding in a Series C round in 2022. This is being used to further develop its platform, with a longer-term goal of pivoting to providing a no-code tool not only for websites, but software development as well.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

34% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Mar 2022

$120m

SERIES C

Jan 2021

$140m

SERIES B

Total funding: $334.9m

Company benefits

100% insurance coverage
401K and financial planning
Paid time off
Annual retreat and offsites
10% time - Take up to 4 hours per week to focus on building skills, working on projects, or learning new Webflow-related things outside of your daily to-do’s.
Commuter benefits
Vacation bonus
Office setup budget
Health and wellness stipend
Remote work reimbursements
Continued education coverage
Choose your own adventure
Webflow subscription discount

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Vlad Magdalin

(Co-founder & CEO)

Having studied Computer Science at California Polytechnic, Vlad worked as a Web Associates Systems Engineer for 3 years before co-founding Chatterfox.com, where he spent 4 yeas. He left his Software Engineer position at Intuit in August 2012 to co-found Webflow the following month, and has been CEO since.

Sergie Magdalin

(Co-founder)

Sergie spent 4 years as a freelance Graphic Designer before joining NameMuir Skate as a Web & UX Designer.

Bryant Chou

(Co-founder)

Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit and CTO at Vungle. He was also the founding CTO at Webflow.

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