Figma is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma's Distributed Storage team as a full-time engineer to tackle challenging scaling problems across our horizontally sharded Postgres platform, Kafka based Streaming platform, and Redis based caching platform. As a technical leader, you will provide long-term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma, design and build novel solutions for scaling distributed storage systems, collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve reliability, and offer simple, maintainable APIs to product teams.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on the long term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma
• Design and build novel solutions for scaling our distributed storage systems
• Collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve the reliability of our underlying systems
• Collaborate with product teams to offer simple, maintainable APIs
• Provide Figma engineering with new primitives to operate online data at scale
• Unlock new revenue by building technical solutions for business problems

Preferred Qualifications

• An advanced degree in Computer Science
• Experience scaling stateful distributed systems
• Experience with operating common database systems in production (e.g., Postgres, MySql)
• Experience operating scalable database technologies in production (e.g., CockroachDB, Vitess)
• Experience with high performance server side languages (e.g., Golang, Rust)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Family and parental leave