Staff DevOps Engineer, Delivery Loop
Webflow is a visual web development and content management platform that lets marketers, designers, developers, and agencies build, launch, and optimize websites without heavy reliance on engineering resources. It serves a broad range of clients from small businesses to large enterprises, including brands like Dropbox, Vanta, and Spin Master.
About Webflow
Webflow provides a visual-first website builder and composable CMS that combines design, content management, and code generation in one platform. Its tools span the full site lifecycle: building sites and design systems from scratch, generating clean production-ready code and reusable components, managing content and CMS collections (including AI-assisted bulk generation), and optimizing sites for conversion, SEO, and AI-driven answer engines (AEO) through native analytics, personalization, and localization features. The platform increasingly incorporates agentic AI to draft copy, generate pages, and run experiments, with integrations such as an MCP server and Cursor for developers. Webflow serves marketers, designers, developers, and agencies, and is trusted by more than 300,000 brands, including enterprise customers like Dropbox, Verifone, Lattice, Orangetheory Fitness, Vanta, Spin Master, and 21.co, as well as agencies like Verndale and Flow Ninja.
Skills
About the Role
You'll operate as a technical leader owning the end to end deployment strategy and shaping the systems that enable engineering velocity at scale. This is a high impact role focused on reducing cycle time, increasing reliability and enabling world-class developer experience across the organization. You'll set technical direction across teams, guide architecture decisions, and act as a force multiplier through mentorship, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
Requirements
- BS / BA degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years in Devops, Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Business-level fluency to read, write and speak in English
- 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
- Ability to influence engineering teams through technical leadership, not just direct ownership
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the end-to-end deployment strategy, from CI pipelines to production rollout
- Own and evolve the 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
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with most premiums covered
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents
- Inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions
- Flexible vacation
- Paid holidays
- Sabbatical program
- Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching
- 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S.
- Support for retirement savings globally
- Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses
- Annual WIN bonus program