Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Database engineering remains a foundational lever in SaaS businesses where product experience is tightly coupled to data performance and reliability. This Senior Database Engineer role sits at that intersection, with an emphasis on production MongoDB and PostgreSQL and on making database changes translate cleanly into application behavior. The remit also signals a platform-minded approach, spanning query tuning, migrations, caching, and the connective tissue between the data layer and a Node.js product environment.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work builds durable expertise in operating stateful systems under real customer load, where latency, correctness, and availability directly shape retention and trust. The blend of database reliability engineering and developer enablement, through tooling, libraries, and automation, is especially transferable across modern SaaS orgs that prioritize internal platforms and paved roads for product teams. Experience collaborating closely with product engineers also sharpens the ability to reason about end-to-end performance rather than optimizing databases in isolation.
This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers deep systems ownership, pragmatic tradeoffs, and cross-team influence through design and standards. It will appeal to someone who enjoys pairing hands-on operational work with longer-horizon improvements that reduce toil and make application teams more effective.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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 recently announced that we're opening an office in Buenos Aires, and this role will be one of the first members of the team. Not ready to apply, or not seeing the right role yet? Sign up here to hear about future opportunities and events with the Webflow team in Argentina.
We’re looking for a Senior Database Engineer 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:
About the role
- Location: Argentina
- Full-time
- Permanent
Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
- Application Information:
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for a new position
As a Senior Database 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 MongoDB and PostgreSQL in production environments.
- Apply database reliability engineering practices to both SQL and NoSQL 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 Engineer 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 MongoDB and PostgreSQL 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.
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.
Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment.
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. 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. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Webflow will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Stay connected
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Please note:
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be administered.
To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment.
If 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.
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