Manager, Software Engineering - Search Platform

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Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team.
• 5+ years experience building and scaling distributed systems as a leader and/or individual contributor.
• Strong expertise in OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or other search engine technologies, with experience managing search clusters at scale.
• Experience with designing and managing scalable, high-performance, and reliable search infrastructure.
• Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
• Skills in optimizing search performance and reducing time-to-index latency.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s search platform and infrastructure.
• Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Search platform capabilities.
• Partner with 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.