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We’re looking for a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our Data Platform team. In this pivotal role, you'll lead efforts to build and manage robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure that powers our data operations. Your responsibilities will include provisioning, deploying, configuring, managing, and scaling key components such as Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and query engines like Athena. You'll work extensively with AWS, containerization technologies, and infrastructure as code tools to ensure our systems run smoothly and reliably. Your expertise will be crucial in integrating these components, providing a solid foundation for our data-driven products. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across the team. If you're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to make a real impact, we’d love to connect with you!

About the role:

• Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
• Full-time
• Permanent
• Exempt
• The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.
  • United States  (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
    • Zone A: $187,000 - $263,500
    • Zone B: $175,000 - $247,000
    • Zone C: $164,000 - $231,500
  • Canada  (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
    • CAD $212,000 - CAD $299,000
• Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
• Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager

As a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer, you'll

• Oversee the provisioning and deployment of infrastructure using Pulumi, ensuring seamless deployment of Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Athena, and other critical systems on AWS.
• Design and implement strategies for scaling Airflow, Kafka, and Spark clusters to accommodate increasing workloads and user demands.
• Lead efforts in optimizing performance, capacity planning, ensuring fault tolerance, and implementing failure recovery strategies across all infrastructure components.
• Configure and manage VPCs, load balancers, and VPC endpoints for secure communication between internal and external services.
• Manage IAM roles, apply security patches, plan and execute version upgrades, and ensure compliance with regulations such as GDPR .
• Architect and implement high-availability solutions across multiple zones and regions, including backups, multi-region replication, and disaster recovery plans.
• Oversee S3 data lake management, including file size management, compaction, encryption, and compression to maximize storage efficiency.
• Implement caching strategies, indexing, and query optimization to ensure efficient data retrieval and processing.
• Implement monitoring and logging using tools like Datadog, CloudWatch and OpenSearch.
• Lead efforts to develop services, tools and automation to simplify infrastructure complexity for other engineering teams, enabling them to focus on building great products.
• 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.

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 Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer if you have

• 8+ years of experience as a Data Infrastructure Engineer or related roles l