Figma is looking to expand its Leadership team within its Infrastructure organization to manage and improve its file and asset operations, as well as its core build, test, and workflow systems. The goal is to ensure these systems are secure, efficient, scalable, and enhance developer productivity and velocity across the company.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience managing and leading high output engineering teams
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- Integrate new features and optimize existing systems, building and extending our infrastructure to support a diverse set of products and features
- Tackle challenges such as expanding data locality, implementing enterprise-grade encryption solutions, and enhancing content management systems
- Improve our Bazel-based build system used by a variety of services
- Iterate on our cloud-based development environment, making our CI system faster & more reliable, and creating internal tools to make engineering workflows more efficient
Other
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 accommodations-ext@figma.com.
- 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.
- By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
- These roles are full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
