Senior Database Engineer

At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers.

We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together.

We’re looking for a  Senior Database Administrator  to join our team and ensure our databases and the applications they support are performant, scalable, and reliable. This role blends database expertise with a strong application-aware mindset, ensuring that changes at the data layer translate seamlessly into improved product experiences.

About the role

Location:

Argentina

Full-time

Permanent

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As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll …

Optimize and tune database performance, including advanced query optimization.

Design, maintain, and improve libraries connecting product applications to databases, including caching layers.

Implement and manage caching strategies and database migrations.

Collaborate closely with product engineers to ensure database changes align with and support application needs.

Script regularly for automation, infrastructure, and reliability tasks (e.g., YAML, Pulumi).

Build tools and libraries to enhance database reliability and streamline developer workflows.

Work in Linux/bash environments for scripting and systems operations.

Collaborate on the main Webflow application, primarily written in Node.js

Support and scale Mongo

DB and Postgre

SQL in production environments.

Apply database reliability engineering practices to both SQL and No

SQL systems.

Demonstrable experience and expertise in multiple technical domains.

Contribute to building and executing on functional strategy.

Lead projects that directly contribute to team and engineering organization's deliverables.

Author, collaborate on, and evaluate design documents.

Influence technical designs and team-level prioritization as well as participate in technical solutions.

Collaborate with product managers in an autonomous, supportive team environment.

Mentor junior engineers in technical skills and Webflow culture.

Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.

About you
You’ll thrive as a Senior Database Administrator if you:

Have 7+ years of professional experience in database engineering, reliability engineering, or related roles, with a proven track record of scaling and optimizing production databases.

Are experienced in Mongo

DB and Postgre

SQL at scale

A strong background in database optimization, query tuning, and migration planning.

Are familiar with application-layer impacts of database changes and comfortable working alongside product engineers.

Are Skilled in scripting and automation (YAML, Pulumi, bash/Linux), with the ability to build supporting tools and libraries.

Have exposure to Node.js or similar languages — not required to be an expert, but able to work effectively in a Node.js monolith when needed.

Are a pragmatic problem-solver who can balance database reliability, performance, and developer productivity.

Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail, environment.

Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact.

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