Figma is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma, a company that makes design accessible to all, as an Engineering Manager to shape and build the next generation of Livegraph services. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
• 5+ years experience building and scaling distributed systems as a leader and/or individual contributor
• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients
• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers

Responsibilities

• Manage, support and develop a team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s infrastructure
• Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Livegraph
• Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community
• Give back technical innovation into the software engineering community, through talks at conferences, open source contributions, blog posts, and external evangelism

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
• A love for new programming languages and syntaxes

Benefits

• Health, dental & vision insurance
• 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