Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma's growing team and contribute to the development and scaling of Livegraph, a real-time query system. This full-time role, available in US hubs or remotely within the US, involves designing, building, and operating Livegraph and its subsystems. You will collaborate with various teams to improve engineering standards, debug production issues, and define simple interfaces. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software engineering experience, particularly in scaling distributed systems and building query systems. Figma offers a competitive compensation package including health, dental, vision, retirement benefits, parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience as a team lead, coordinating a group of engineers to build and scale complex distributed systems in a high growth environment
• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients
• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users
• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers
• Excellent technical communication skills, working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions

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 and fix 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
• 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
• Retirement with company contribution
• Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health & wellness benefits
• Generous PTO
• Company recharge days
• A learning & development stipend
• A work from home stipend
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles