Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Server Platform Engineer at Figma, a design collaboration tool company. The role involves designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure systems and services, improving engineering standards, working with engineers to build new features, and helping debug production issues. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in building infrastructure components/services at scale, experience building and scaling distributed systems, and a proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead
• Previously built or worked on Compute, Deployment, Infrastructure as Code, Traffic, or Observability systems at scale
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable infrastructure systems and services that power Figma’s innovative tools for design and collaboration
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Work with engineers across the company to build innovative new features that operate at scale
• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Have excellent problem solving skills. You use a systematic and thorough approach
• Care deeply about the quality of the software / systems you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft
• Have excellent technical communication skills

Benefits

• Health, dental & vision
• Retirement 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