Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform

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We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform to help us build a scalable, reliable and performant platform for both real-time customer facing applications and internal business intelligence needs.

The Data Platform team enables data-driven decision making through robust data infrastructure, pipelines and analytics systems that power our business.

About The Role

• Location : Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
• Full-time
• Exempt status
• The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different US geographic markets. The base pay for this role ranges from $143,000 in our lowest geographic market up to $198,000 in our highest geographic market.

These figures are in $USD and apply to candidates in the United States. The specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.

Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager

As a Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform , you’ll

• Develop event-driven data infrastructure on AWS.
• Build data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and routing events using Kafka, Spark streaming and other technologies.
• Build a data lakehouse architecture.
• Create unified frameworks for stream, batch and real-time processing.
• Develop data models, schemas and standards for event data.
• Optimize data replication and loading across systems.
• Optimize data storage and access patterns for fast querying.
• Improve data reliability, discoverability and observability.
• Improve our planning, development, and deployment processes to help you and your fellow team members.
• Participate in all engineering activities including incident response, interviewing, designing and reviewing technical specifications, code review, and releasing new functionality.
• Mentor, coach, and inspire a team of engineers of various levels.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and data scientists in an autonomous, supportive team environment.
• Effectively communicate team priorities and strategy to engineering and cross-functional leadership teams.

In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we'll help you incorporate them into your role.

About You

You’ll thrive as a Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform if you :

• Have 5+ years experience building large scale data platforms.
• Have hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and streaming data processing frameworks like Kafka, Spark, Flink.
• Have experience building lakehouse architecture on cloud storage.
• Have experience with storage layers like Hudi, Delta Lake and Iceberg.
• Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform / Pulumi and worked with Kubernetes.
• Are experienced with SQL, Python, Java.
• Are experienced with time-series databases like Clickhouse, InfluxDB.
• Are experienced working with dbt and Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or other data warehouses.
• Have familiarity with Kimball’s dimensional modeling techniques.
• Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact.
• Excellent organization and communication skills, both verbal and written.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Research shows that you may still be considered for a role if you meet just half of the requirements.

Our Core Behaviors

• Obsess over customer experience. We deeply understand what we’re building and who we’re building for and serving.
• Move with heartfelt urgency. We have a healthy relationship with impatience, channeling it thoughtfully to show up better and faster for our customers and for each other.
• Say the hard thing with care. Our best work often comes from intelligent debate, critique, and even difficult conversations.
• Make your mark. We seek out new and unique ways to create meaningful impact, and we champion the same from our colleagues.

Benefits & Wellness

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers.
• Flexible PTO with a mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off, and sabbatical program.
• Access to mental wellness coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Monthly stipends to support health and wellness, as well as smart work, and annual stipends to support professional growth.
• Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs.
• 401k plan and financial wellness benefits.
• Commuter benefits for in-office workers.

Temporary employees are not eligible for paid holiday time off, accrued paid time off, paid leaves of absence, or company-sponsored perks.

Be you, with us

At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.

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Please Note

To join Webflow, you'll need valid U.S. or Canadian 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.

Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Webflow.

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