Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

About the Role

Join Webflow as a Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity to define and drive the future of how our engineers build, test, and deliver software, impacting engineering velocity at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Webflow’s end-to-end deployment strategy, from CI pipelines to production rollout.
• Own and evolve our GitOps-based deployment platform (e.g., ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts), ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
• Design and implement safe, progressive delivery mechanisms (canary, blue/green, feature flags, automated rollback).
• Set technical direction across teams, guiding architecture decisions that improve developer velocity and system reliability.
• Establish and evangelize best practices for CI/CD, release engineering, and environment management across the organization.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to drive step-function improvements in developer productivity and cycle time.
• Build and evolve internal tooling to improve testing, and deployment workflows.
• Ensure high reliability and operational excellence through strong observability, monitoring, and incident-driven improvements.
• Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier, influencing teams through technical leadership, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in modern deployment systems, including Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, and tools like ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts.
• Successfully designed and scaled CI/CD systems for large engineering organizations.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear technical strategies.
• Strong track record of improving developer velocity, reliability, and system scalability.
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Docker), and distributed systems.
• Experience implementing progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue/green, feature flags).
• Skilled in infrastructure as code (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform) and system automation.
• Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural vision.
• Influence engineering teams through technical leadership, not just direct ownership.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity and continuous exploration of emerging technologies, including AI-driven developer tooling.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI-driven developer tooling.