\nAt Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. It’s the web, made better. \n\n \n\nWe are looking for a Principal Engineer, reporting to our CTO. The Principal Engineer is a seasoned expert with an exceptionally strong technical and functional background, consistently incorporating emerging technologies into engineering products and best practices. Recognized as a subject matter expert, they lead major Engineering projects and strategic initiatives, showcasing in-depth knowledge of industry trends and effectively communicating complex technical issues. This individual contributes significantly to long-term strategic business thinking and drives Engineering innovation. With an expert ability to identify and advocate for strategic changes, they play a key role in shaping Webflow's architecture and guiding the company's future. They model and encourage the expression of diverse ideas and opinions and drive the engineering culture internally and promote it externally to help attract world-class talent. \nAbout the role \n\n\n* Location: San Francisco HQ or US remote\n\n* Full-time\n\n* The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different US geographic markets. The base pay for this role ranges from $234,900 in our lowest geographic market up to $341,600 in our highest geographic market. These figures are in $USD and apply to candidates in the United States. The specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.\n\n\n\n\nAs a Principal Engineer you’ll:\n\n\n* Drive engineering innovation across the entire company\n\n* Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies\n\n* Spearhead research initiatives to explore new tools, frameworks, and methodologies\n\n* Guide the approach and execution of a particular team or group of teams\n\n* Dig deep into arbitrarily complex and critical problems and find an appropriate path forward until resolution\n\n* Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements to architect, design and deliver high-quality solutions\n\n* Conduct thorough architectural reviews to help guide and shape Webflow’s technology stack\n\n* Be a model for engineering innovation in the industry working with partners, customers, and investors\n\n* Mentor and coach other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning\n\n* Exemplify Webflow’s Core Behaviors in the pursuit of our mission to democratize software development\n\n\n\n\nThat said, these role responsibilities are just the start! At Webflow, we encourage you to contribute wherever your interests take you — and shape your role accordingly. \nAbout you\n\nYou’ll thrive as a Principal Engineer if:\n\n\n* You have a genuine passion for building platforms for web applications and scalable web frameworks \n\n* You have exhibit proficiency in a diverse set of programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python\n\n* You have hands-on experience with modern web technology such as React, Node.js, Tailwind.css, and frameworks such as Next.js and Remix\n\n* You possess a deep understanding of monorepos, microservices architecture and cloud technologies\n\n* You showcase strong expertise in database design and optimization, with a focus on NoSQL databases, particularly mongoDB.\n\n* You have a solid grasp of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes and extensive experience designing RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and integrating third-party APIs\n\n* You have a thorough understanding of security best practices in software development\n\n* You should be well-versed in both frontend and backend technologies, combining a comprehensive skill set with a love for crafting highly technical and innovative solutions for web development\n\n* You are committed to cultivating an inclusive team culture\n\n\n\n\nOur Core Behaviors:\n\n\n* Obsess over customer experience. We deeply understand what we’re building and who we’re building for and serving. We define the leading edge of what’s possible in our industry and deliver the future for our customers.\n\n* Move with heartfelt urgency. We have a healthy relationship with impatience, channeling it thoughtfully to show up better and faster for our customers and for each other. Time is the most limited thing we have, and we make the most of every moment.\n\n* Say the hard thing with care. Our best work often comes from intelligent debate, critique, and even difficult conversations. We speak our minds and don’t sugarcoat things — and we do so with respect, maturity, and care.\n\n* Make your mark. We seek out new and unique ways to create meaningful impact, and we champion the same from our colleagues. We work as a team to get the job done, and we go out of our way to celebrate and reward those going above and beyond for our customers and our teammates.\n\n\n\nBenefits & wellness\n\n\n* Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company\n\n* 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents (US; full-time Canadian workers working 30+ hours per week), as well as Health Savings Account/Health Reimbursement Account, dependent on insurance plan selection. Employees also have voluntary insurance options, such as life, disability, hospital protection, accident, and critical illness\n\n* 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers, as well as an additional 6-8 weeks of pregnancy disability for birthing parents to be used before child bonding leave. Employees also have access to family planning care and reimbursement\n\n* Flexible PTO with an mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off, and sabbatical program\n\n* Access to mental wellness coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program\n\n* Monthly stipends to support health and wellness, as well as smart work, and annual stipends to support professional growth\n\n* Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs\n\n* 401k plan and financial wellness benefits, like CPA or financial advisor coverage\n\n* Commuter benefits for in-office workers\n\n\n\n\nTemporary employees are not eligible for paid holiday time off, accrued paid time off, paid leaves of absence, or company-sponsored perks.\nBe you, with us\n\nAt Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.\nStay connected\n\nNot ready to apply, but want to be part of the Webflow community? Consider following our story on our Webflow Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, and/or Glassdoor. \nPlease note:\n\nTo join Webflow, you'll need valid U.S. or Canadian work authorization depending on the country of employment.\n\nIf you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, GraphQL, Docker, Cloud, NoSQL, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nABOUT EIGENLABS\n\nEigenLabs provides cryptoeconomic security as a service for blockchain projects. Our platform provides programmatic access to the trust layer of Ethereum to make components reusable, allowing builders to rely on Ethereum for security while saving time and resources typically allocated to bootstrapping their own token. EigenLabs technologies also create technical value & efficiency for validators in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake network by enabling them to "re-stake" their assets. Re-staking allows validators to secure multiple protocols and boost rewards by providing security services to oracle networks, data availability networks and dApps running on rollups or side-chains. We’re on a mission to hyperscale ETH & dApps and increase decentralization through re-staking!\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nAt EigenLabs, our engineering teams operate within a customer-aligned team structure, where we believe in shared responsibility for DevOps among all software engineers. As an Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of critical infrastructure components while fostering a culture of collaboration and best practices adoption within your team, and across the company. \n\nYou will work closely with frontend and backend software engineers, leveraging your expertise to empower the entire team to collectively maintain, operate, and enhance infrastructure resources effectively. By championing leading practices, automation, and efficient workflows, you will ensure that our customer-aligned teams can deliver high-quality software solutions with speed, security, and reliability.\n\nYour leadership in infrastructure design, implementation, and reliability engineering will directly contribute to EigenLabs' commitment to blockchain innovation and advancing economic freedom through technology. If you’re passionate about shaping the future of blockchain, and making a meaningful impact on the world, we look forward to hearing from you!\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\n\n\n* You will lead the design and implementation of foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production. This includes dynamic configuration, DNS and networking setup, secrets management, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, including platforms such as EKS).\n\n* Demonstrate leadership by taking the initiative to address challenges and drive continuous improvement. Foster a culture of best practices adoption and automation within your team. Share your expertise to empower frontend and backend engineers to efficiently maintain, operate, and enhance infrastructure resources.\n\n* Utilize your proficiency in cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or similar to optimize our infrastructure for scalability and performance.\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.\n\n* Make significant contributions to operational excellence initiatives, ensuring the highest level of efficiency and reliability in our infrastructure. Administer network capabilities and support CI/CD pipelines. Monitor infrastructure using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. \n\n* Implement and maintain security best practices across all aspects of our infrastructure, including access controls, encryption, and network security\n\n* Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services\n\n* Design, implement and champion Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principles to automate software development and deployment processes.\n\n* Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our infrastructure, aligning it with our product and technical goals.\n\n* Build tools for blockchain node operators that make it easy to launch and operate different types of validator environments\n\n* Proactively contribute to discussions about technical issues, sprint and roadmap planning, and improving engineering processes\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING\n\n\n* 5+ years of direct experience in infrastructure, SRE or back-end engineering with public cloud and Linux-based systems.\n\n* Strong design and implementation experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred)\n\n* Knowledge of authentication, authorisation and accounting (IAM, Federation, RBAC, service accounts) for public cloud and kubernetes\n\n* Containerization and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with container hardening and implementation within Kubernetes.\n\n* Proficiency in at least one back-end development language such as Python, Go, or C++\n\n* Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, etc., enabling efficient automation and configuration management.\n\n* Demonstrated experience in production environments with proactive monitoring, logging, alerting,  and profiling with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (or alternative log analysis platforms) to ensure robust performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.\n\n* Experience developing and maintaining CI systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI) to facilitate automation of the SDLC. Working knowledge of CD tooling (e.g., AWS Code Pipelines, ArgoCD, Flux), and an understanding of how GitOps deployment models operate\n\n* 3+ years experience with one or more programming languages, preferably Go or Python.\n\n* Knowledge of security best practices, encompassing encryption methods, key management, access control mechanisms, and network security protocols that contribute to the overall security posture of our infrastructure. \n\n* Strong understanding of core Internet protocols: DNS, TCP/SSL, HTTP, gRPC, etc.\n\n* Proven ability to take ownership of projects and work independently. Proficiency in effectively communicating project statuses and diligently documenting activities. Expertise in maintaining meticulous attention to detail across diverse, blockchain-centric environments.\n\n* Track record of successfully delivering complex and high-scale infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n\n* Contribution to open source projects and/or developing open source tools is advantage\n\n* Data visualization, and observability tooling experience\n\n* Expertise in scaling and migrating systems in dynamic environments, with a strong understanding of incident management processes.\n\n* Experience in information security, including vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and implementing and automating security controls, with expertise in security protocols (TLS, SSL, SSH) and frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO 27001). Experience responding to security audits. \n\n* Service discovery and service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd.\n\n* Good understanding of blockchain fundamentals, including wallets, smart contracts, protocol design\n\n* Experience with Liquid Staking or Ethereum Node Operations platforms\n\n\n\n\n \n\nIn compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $225,000 - $250,000 is the annual base salary. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, EigenLabs provides various employee benefits, including: \n\n\n* Employer-covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plans\n\n* 401k \n\n* Unlimited Paid Time Off\n\n* 12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave \n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Ethereum, Docker, Accounting, DevOps, Cloud, Node, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States