Software Engineer - Search Platform

Summary

Join Figma's Search Platform team and build the infrastructure powering Figma's search capabilities. As an engineer, you will work on impactful projects like a low-code indexing solution and an AI-powered re-ranking architecture. You'll scale search infrastructure for Figma's growing data sets and add support for new content types. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely in the United States. You will design, build, and maintain scalable search infrastructure, improve the developer experience, collaborate with other teams, and contribute to a unified search pipeline. Figma offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, both search clusters and also services around them
• Strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr
• Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing
• Proficiency in optimizing search performance and reducing latency
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of completing projects that required cross-functional partnership
• The ability to break down complex topics to successfully communicate with various audiences

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient infrastructure for Figma’s search platform, focusing on centralizing and standardizing solutions
• Improve the internal developer experience of working with search by developing low-code interfaces that allow product teams to easily index and manage data for new and existing search use-cases
• Collaborate with the Search Quality, Search Experience, and other product teams to ensure seamless integration of search infrastructure with product-side logic
• Contribute to the development of a new unified search indexing and backfilling pipeline
• Enhance observability and monitoring of search clusters to provide infrastructure-level SLO guarantees
• Participate in setting the technical direction and strategy for search technologies, aligning with the long-term vision of the Search Platform team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with novel, custom solutions to complex engineering challenges
• Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Go, or Rust
• Experience in evangelizing innovative infrastructure and developer tools

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