Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Database Engineer role at Figma, a company that provides design tools. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable database systems, improving engineering standards, collaborating with other teams, and helping debug production issues. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in scaling distributed systems, mentorship experiences, excellent technical communication skills, and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products in high growth environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or team lead
• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments
• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers
• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions
• Excellent technical communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable database systems
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve developer velocity while supporting our scalable database products
• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building out and operating database clusters or stateful systems at scale
• Experience with running Postgres, MySQL, Redis or other database technologies in a production environment
• Experience building and operating core, ‘critical path’ production services
• Experience building out distributed systems in high-performance server-side languages like Golang, Rust, Java or C++

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental & vision
• Retirement benefits with company contribution
• Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health & wellness benefits
• Generous PTO, company recharge days
• Learning & development stipend
• Work from home stipend
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Equity to employees
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles