Senior Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow.
• Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency, high availability, and strong consistency.
• Lead foundational platform investments and data infrastructure, partnering with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize AI/ML capabilities.
• Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing to implementation, launch, and long-term operational ownership.
• Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers, raising the engineering bar across the organization through architecture review and operational excellence practices.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• 401k
• Bonus
• Dental
• Equity
• Flexible PTO
• Health Insurance
• Mental Health
• Parental Leave
• Remote Stipend
• Sabbatical
• Vision

Culture

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