[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Datastores @Webflow

Role Description

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager, Datastores to lead the team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Webflow’s core production databases — primarily MongoDB and PostgreSQL. This team operates at the heart of our application and hosting stack, enabling product teams to ship confidently while maintaining high standards of performance, durability, security, and data residency.

As an Engineering Manager, Datastores you’ll:

• Lead and grow a team of Database engineers responsible for MongoDB and PostgreSQL in production.
• Own the operational excellence of our database layer, including availability, durability, performance, cost efficiency, and data residency.
• Drive roadmap and strategy for multi-region architecture, backup and disaster recovery, indexing and schema governance, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation (Pulumi/Terraform).
• Partner with Product Engineering to guide new access patterns, review high-impact launches for database risk, and establish guardrails that enable velocity without compromising reliability.
• Improve reliability through proactive failure-mode detection, clear SLOs, actionable alerting, and high-quality incident response and retrospectives.
• Build self-service tooling and paved roads for migrations, connection management, indexing, and query best practices.
• Mentor and grow senior and staff engineers while contributing to broader infrastructure strategy across AWS, Kubernetes, and stateful systems architecture.

Qualifications

• BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
• Business-level fluency to read, write and speak in English
• 2+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience operating and scaling production databases (MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL preferred).
• Experience running business-critical, high-throughput systems with strong availability and durability requirements.

Requirements

• Bring deep expertise in operating and scaling production databases (e.g., replication, failover, indexing, query planning, migrations) and have led teams supporting stateful, multi-region systems with strict uptime requirements.
• Balance strong architectural judgment with pragmatism — evolving our datastore strategy while enabling product teams to ship quickly and safely.
• Think in terms of SLOs, capacity models, and long-term architectural trade-offs, with hands-on experience in infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform), Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Bring strong systems-level thinking to performance and reliability, identifying root causes across application, database, and infrastructure layers and building preventative solutions.
• Lead calmly through high-severity incidents, drive blameless postmortems and systemic improvements, and build strong cross-functional relationships grounded in craftsmanship and continuous improvement.
• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact.

Benefits

• Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
• Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
• Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
• Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
• Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
• Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
• Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.