Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for an engineer to work on Livegraph, a realtime query system at Figma. The role involves designing, building, and operating Livegraph, driving down tech debt, collaborating with teams, and helping debug production issues. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in building infrastructure components/services at scale, running online services serving heterogeneous clients, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale
• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients
• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users
• 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 Livegraph, a realtime query system, as well as Livegraph subsystems
• Drive down tech debt and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve reliability, efficiency, and developer velocity
• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Preferred Qualifications

• A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing query systems, implementing technologies such as GraphQL
• Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools
• Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company’s distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach

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
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles