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
Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that: support product innovation and user collaboration at scale.
Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms,: streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration.
Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs.
Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the organization.
Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
What they're looking for
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.
- + years of Software Engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering..
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding,: replication, consistency, and eventual convergence.
- Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure),: infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
