The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Coach and develop production engineers, including experienced technical: leaders, through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams
Set priorities and guide delivery for the team’s embedded work with Figma’s: product and platform organizations. Align partners on outcomes, responsibilities, and tradeoffs, and resolve competing demands
Guide improvements to observability, incident response, and production: tooling that reduce recurring toil, surface actionable signals, and make services easier for product teams to understand and operate
Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction, design, and: production reviews, supporting their ownership of technical decisions and holding the team accountable for delivery
Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges alongside partner-team leaders,: and prioritize improvements that support upcoming product goals
Turn lessons from work with product teams and production incidents into: reusable tools and practices that strengthen partner teams’ ownership and make on-call more sustainable
What they're looking for
- Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers,: helping them grow their technical judgment, leadership, and impact
- Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale, with the: technical judgment to guide decisions across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems
- Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and: cross-functional partners, earning trust beyond your reporting line, resolving competing priorities, and delivering shared business goals
- Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations, with: clear communication and respect for engineers’ technical ownership
