Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Figma's growing Engineering TPM team as a Technical Program Manager (TPM) partnering with the Infrastructure team. This new role focuses on enabling Figma's infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects. You will lead execution, coordination, and risk management of infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration. The position requires collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders, prioritization, and driving operational excellence. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the US. Figma offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as Infra TPM or related Engineering work, with a strong background in Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, or SRE
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Experience driving large-scale infrastructure initiatives (including encryption and external key management) or migrations of high availability business critical services
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and establish program management best practices in a fast-moving organization
• Strong internal and external stakeholder management, and the ability to translate technical challenges into executive-level updates
• Experience coordinating engineering teams, driving cross-functional programs, and tracking performance bottlenecks to optimize infrastructure SLAs
• Deep technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven architectures (Kafka)

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma’s infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact
• Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, and cloud-native performance improvements
• Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment
• Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies
• Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies
• Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions within an engineering organization
• Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs
• Infrastructure Incident Management and Analysis

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
• Equity