Manager, Software Engineering Production Engineering

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre brainstorming creating a prototype translating designs into code or iterating with AI. From idea to product Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows move faster and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

Production Engineering embeds with product and platform teams across Figma to help them deliver reliable products faster. Our work spans the stack from browser performance to backend services and infrastructure. We build tools and practices that reduce operational complexity clarify important signals and leave teams confident operating their systems. We value curiosity thoughtful engineering and practical progress on problems that matter to the business.

As Engineering Manager youll own the teams strategy priorities delivery and people development. Youll work with product and platform leaders to decide where the team can make the biggest difference balancing immediate production needs with lasting improvements. Youll use your technical judgment to challenge assumptions and assess risk while giving engineers room to lead.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

• Coach and develop production engineers including experienced technical leaders through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams
• Set priorities and guide delivery for the teams embedded work with Figmas product and platform organizations. Align partners on outcomes responsibilities and tradeoffs and resolve competing demands
• Guide improvements to observability incident response and production tooling that reduce recurring toil surface actionable signals and make services easier for product teams to understand and operate
• Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction design and production reviews supporting their ownership of technical decisions and holding the team accountable for delivery
• Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges alongside partner-team leaders and prioritize improvements that support upcoming product goals
• Turn lessons from work with product teams and production incidents into reusable tools and practices that strengthen partner teams ownership and make on-call more sustainable

• Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers helping them grow their technical judgment leadership and impact
• Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale with the technical judgment to guide decisions across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems
• Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross-functional partners earning trust beyond your reporting line resolving competing priorities and delivering shared business goals
• Sound judgment about reliability security and sustainable operations with clear communication and respect for engineers technical ownership

• Experience building shared reliability platforms observability or distributed tracing systems or tooling that reduces toil across multiple engineering teams
• Familiarity with traffic management service discovery or service meshes container orchestration infrastructure as code or capacity and performance engineering
• Experience improving incident response processes and reducing on-call burden

At Figma one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity/expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role participate in the interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation please reach out to . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:

• Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
• Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.

Once the applicable days has passed candidates are welcome to apply again.