Figma
Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$258k-$376kDetected 5 days ago
Distributed SystemsCode ReviewCI/CDTemporalMachine LearningLLMsAI OrchestrationFigmaCadenceLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform that powers them
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, spanning sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and org-wide agentic workflows
- Drive the reliability, observability, and scalability of our cloud agent platform, ensuring it meets production-grade standards as adoption grows across the engineering organization
- Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevEx teams to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for AI-assisted developer workflows and drive adoption
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools, models, and agent frameworks, making strategic bets on which capabilities to build versus buy
- At Figma we celebrate and support our differences.
- Direct experience building AI developer tooling, agent platforms, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Background in developer experience platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments
- Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-generated outputs
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams, with a track record of scaling teams and delivering high-performing systems
- Demonstrated fluency with AI/ML systems, LLM-based workflows, or agent architectures - as a builder, not just a consumer - with the ability to reason about tradeoffs in nondeterministic systems
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agent frameworks such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar background agent systems, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations
- Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, n8n, or Tines for multi-stage automation
Skills
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
Compensation
- $258,000 - $376,000 USD
- If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
- Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.
- For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.
- Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- Figma's compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Benefits
- These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an
Equal opportunity
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
- equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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 cha
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