Webflow
Webflow is the way to design, build, and launch powerful websites visually — without coding.
Senior Staff Engineer – Infrastructure and Architecture
Location
California
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$220K - $285K / year
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsTerraformType ScriptGo
Job Description
• Partner with engineering leadership, EMs, and Product Managers to define and deliver AI products across a broad set of user scenarios.
• Architect scalable, high-performance systems that support a growing number of AI-powered products.
• Drive technical strategy and make architectural decisions that compound - enabling the team to ship more AI experiences faster.
• Own the engineering quality, reliability, and performance of AI products as complexity and scale increase.
Job Requirements
- BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
- 10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in high-availability, customer-facing environments.
- Architected and scaled large backend systems across multiple teams or product areas.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design (consistency models, fault tolerance, scaling patterns, observability).
- Hands-on experience designing and scaling multi-region environments in AWS or GCP.
- Strong experience with containerized systems (Kubernetes, EKS/GKE, ECS, etc.).
- Fluent in infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Strong API and service architecture experience.
- Led performance optimization efforts at scale.
- Backend-leaning, but comfortable navigating full product stacks when necessary (TypeScript, Node, Go, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond your immediate team.
- Known for thoughtful system design and pragmatic decision-making.
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate architectural thinking across an organization.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build.
- Health coverage that actually covers you.
- Support for every stage of family life.
- Time off that’s actually off.
- Wellness for the whole you.
- Invest in your future.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life.
- Bonus for building together.
