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 operate scalable distributed systems and services that: power Figma's innovative tools for design and collaboration
Develop and secure our internal and edge network running on AWS
Help design and deploy an internal service mesh network which can support: Figma's growing portfolio of services and features
Develop intelligent detection and auto-scaling countermeasures for DDoS threats
Debug and resolve production issues across services and multiple layers of: the stack, reducing mean time to resolution for critical incidents
+ years of experience building infrastructure components and services at scale in a cloud environment
What they're looking for
- Experience with programming languages like TypeScript or Go
- Experience building and scaling distributed and traffic systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead
- Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
- Experience communicating cross-functionally and working with teams handling: network and traffic systems at scale for millions of customers
