Figma
Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Full-time
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About the role
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- Our work spans the stack, from browser performance to backend services and infrastructure.
- We value curiosity, thoughtful engineering, and practical progress on problems that matter to the business.
Responsibilities
- At Figma we celebrate and support our differences.
- Coach and develop production engineers, including experienced technical leaders, through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams
- Align partners on outcomes, responsibilities, and tradeoffs, and resolve competing demands
- 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
- Experience building shared reliability platforms, observability or distributed tracing systems, or tooling that reduces toil across multiple engineering teams
Requirements
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Compensation
- $258,000 - $376,000 USD
- 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.
- Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations.
- Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
- Annual Base Salary Range:
Equal opportunity
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
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- 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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