Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Summary

Join Figma's growing team of passionate people and contribute to making design accessible to all. As a full-stack engineer, you will design, build, and maintain reliable and secure systems impacting millions of users. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, focusing on features supporting Figma's rapid growth and global expansion. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States. Your work will directly impact user experience, internal productivity, or revenue operations. You will contribute to team culture by mentoring peers and fostering a collaborative environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and maintaining complex systems or products in production
• Full-stack experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go, PostgreSQL)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working effectively across functions

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and ship high-quality features across the stack, using technologies like TypeScript, React, Ruby, Go, C++, and more
• Own key parts of the product that impact user experience, internal productivity, or revenue operations
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, support, and sales to shape product direction and solve complex problems
• Operate and monitor the systems you build, with a strong focus on reliability, security, performance, and user experience
• Contribute to team culture by mentoring peers, providing feedback, and helping foster a collaborative and inclusive engineering environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with B2B SaaS, billing/payments infrastructure, developer platforms, or enterprise-scale systems
• Familiarity with technologies such as Stripe, Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, SCIM, SAML, or WebAssembly
• A background in experimentation, observability, compliance automation, or internal tools development
• Prior work on extensibility platforms (plugins, APIs, widgets), or experience contributing to open source developer communities
• Passion for crafting excellent developer or user experiences, and an eye for elegant, maintainable architecture
• Enthusiasm for learning and teaching—whether mentoring teammates, leading initiatives, or sharing knowledge in code reviews or pairing sessions

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
• An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles