Staff DevOps Engineer, Delivery Loop
Leads Webflow’s deployment strategy and GitOps platform, improving CI/CD reliability, progressive delivery, and developer productivity. The role requires 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering and deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and infrastructure as code.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define and drive Webflow’s end-to-end deployment strategy, from CI pipelines to production rollout.
- Own and evolve the GitOps-based deployment platform, including tools such as ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts, for scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
- Design and implement safe progressive delivery mechanisms, including canary releases, blue/green deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.
- Set technical direction across teams and guide architecture decisions that improve developer velocity and system reliability.
- Establish and evangelize best practices for CI/CD, release engineering, and environment management.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to improve developer productivity and cycle time.
- Build and evolve internal tooling for testing and deployment workflows.
- Ensure high reliability and operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident-driven improvements.
- Mentor engineers and influence teams through technical leadership, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years in DevOps, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Business-level fluency in English.
- Deep expertise in modern deployment systems, including Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts.
- Experience designing and scaling CI/CD systems for large engineering organizations.
- Ability to own ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turn them into clear technical strategies.
- Track record of improving developer velocity, reliability, and system scalability.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, AWS, Docker, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing progressive delivery techniques such as canary releases, blue/green deployments, and feature flags.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Pulumi or Terraform, and system automation.
- Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural vision.
- Ability to influence engineering teams through technical leadership.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive interest in applying AI and emerging technologies to improve engineering outcomes.
Benefits and Compensation
- Equity in Webflow through RSUs for permanent employees.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- Paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for all parents and additional leave for birthing parents.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Mental health resources, therapy, and coaching.
- Retirement savings support globally, including a 401(k) with employer matching in the U.S.
- Monthly work and wellness expense stipends.
- Eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.
Skills
Kubernetes, GitOps, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, CI/CD, AWS, Docker, Distributed Systems, Pulumi, Terraform, Infrastructure As Code, Feature Flags, Observability, Monitoring, System Automation
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