Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform
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FigmaSoftware Infrastructure
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.Full-TimeManager
Salary258,000 - 376,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgresDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
- Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems
- Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals
- Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems
- Experience developing engineers' careers and navigating performance conversations
- Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning
- Own the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier — drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience
- Set technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability investments with platform capabilities that accelerate product engineering teams
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands
- Recruit, retain, and grow top infrastructure engineering talent
- Drive execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication of progress and risks to stakeholders
- Collaborate with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure on shared operational standards and cross-cutting initiatives
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations
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