FIGMA - San Francisco, CA
posted 1 day ago
About the position
The Production Engineering team focuses on end-to-end reliability, durability, scalability, and performance of Figma products and services. We're looking for a Senior Engineer to scale and drive the initiatives and programs that support Figma's production engineering efforts, allowing our product teams to rapidly deliver new features. This is a critical part of success for both our ability to build new products and features, support the growth of our user base, and enable innovation for all engineering (infrastructure and product teams, alike). We're looking for a generalist with a strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals. The ideal candidate will have experience building and running complex large scale services. Additionally, they will have a passion for building tools that simplify operating large-scale infrastructure and for improving the operational maturity of Figma. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the engineering team to define standard methodologies and goals around reliability, durability, scalability, and performance
- Address common operational challenges through better telemetry and by building tools / services
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Participate in design reviews and production reviews for new features, products or infrastructure components
- Plan for the growth of Figma's infrastructure
- Operate and maintain AWS Infrastructure
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience operating infrastructure components / services at scale
- Proven grasp of Computer Science fundamentals
- Strong interest in distributed systems
- Experience managing infrastructure services in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
- Demonstrated unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
- Track record for diagnosing problems within complex systems
Nice-to-haves
- Excellent problem solving skills and technical communication skills
- Systematic and thorough approach to problem solving
- Bias for action and driven by impact
- Willingness to work on grungy problems if they have a high impact on the business or the health of the infrastructure
- Care deeply about the quality of the software / systems built
- Artisan mentality and always looking to improve craft
- Ability to strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism
- Value inclusivity and collaboration in a close-knit company culture
