Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tooling

Webflow is building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tooling to enhance the development experience with their platform. This role involves working across infrastructure and backend services to deliver cohesive platform capabilities and architecting reliable, scalable compute infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Work across infrastructure, backend services, CLI tooling, and dashboard interfaces to deliver cohesive platform capabilities
• Drive architectural decisions that balance scalability, security, and developer experience
• Build APIs and internal systems that abstract complex infrastructure into simple, developer-friendly workflows
• Implement and maintain edge compute or middleware capabilities for request handling, authentication, and response transformation
• Architect reliable, scalable, and performant compute infrastructure to support high levels of parallel builds and deployments
• Implement observability across the build pipeline (metrics, tracing, logging) to diagnose bottlenecks and improve system resilience

Requirements:

• BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
• 5+ years of experience shipping features and products
• Development experience with AWS, Cloudflare, Node.js, and MongoDB
• Passionate about building developer platforms and tooling, especially focused on building and hosting modern web frameworks
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team
• Get excited about the mission of making deploying with Webflow as seamless as designing in it
• Think in terms of scalability and operability, and like owning systems that require real production rigor (visibility, troubleshooting, and scale)
• Are comfortable collaborating across product + design + engineering to deliver cohesive experiences that span API/backend services, CLI tooling, and dashboard UX
• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact