Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Webflow is building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform as a remote-first company. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity to define and drive the end-to-end deployment strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use in software delivery.

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
• Have deep expertise in modern deployment systems, including Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, and tools like ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts
• Have successfully designed and scaled CI/CD systems for large engineering organizations
• Are comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear technical strategies
• Have a strong track record of improving developer velocity, reliability, and system scalability
• Possess deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Docker), and distributed systems
• Have experience implementing progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue/green, feature flags)
• Are skilled in infrastructure as code (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform) and system automation
• Balance short-term execution with long-term architectural vision
• Influence engineering teams through technical leadership, not just direct ownership
• Communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stay curious and continuously explore emerging technologies, including AI-driven developer tooling