About the role:
- Location: Remote-first (Argentina)
- Permanent, full-time employee (this is not a contractor position)
- Application Information:
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for a new position
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.
About you:
Requirements:
- 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.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- 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.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
- Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.
- Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible.
- Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.
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.
Be you, with us
At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences...
