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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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

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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