Manager, Software Engineering - Infrastructure

Job description

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you’re brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you’re excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We are looking to expand our Leadership team within our greater Infrastructure organization. Please see details on team below:

FigFile:

• The FigFile Content team manages the infrastructure that supports file and asset operations. As the Engineering Manager, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of Figma’s file management capabilities, ensuring that our systems are secure, efficient, and scalable.
• This role impacts both our internal processes and the experience of millions of users worldwide. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to integrate new features and optimize existing systems, building and extending our infrastructure to support a diverse set of products and features. The role presents opportunities to tackle challenges such as expanding data locality, implementing enterprise-grade encryption solutions, and enhancing content management systems, all of which are vital to Figma’s growth and success in the competitive design software landscape.

Developer Experience:

• The Developer Experience team is responsible for the core build, test, and workflow systems used across Figma. Our mission is to make every engineer at the company happier and more productive! We’re improving our Bazel-based build system used by a variety of services, iterating on our cloud-based development environment, making our CI system faster & more reliable, and creating internal tools to make engineering workflows more efficient
• Our team is growing in order to ensure that engineering-wide productivity across Figma stays high as we scale. We’re looking for thoughtful leaders passionate about improving dev velocity and with experience leading teams focused on internal tools & system

These roles are full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Manage, support and develop a team of engineers, including staff level engineers, who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s infrastructure
• Drive the execution of strategic initiatives, enhancing Figma’s core infrastructure supporting Files and associated media
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community
• Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 3+ years of experience managing and leading high output engineering teams
• Experience working on internal product infrastructure teams with many internal customers
• Experience growing and extending internal platforms, with an emphasis on customer experience, and developer velocity
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers
• Demonstrated experience with understanding the needs of our internal client teams and aligning roadmap to drive maximum business impact

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including 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, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$250,000—$350,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status , or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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