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Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

4 hours, 41 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
DevOps and Infrastructure
LLM MySQL PostgreSQL
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Figma

Figma

Figma provides a collaborative web application for interface design that enables users to seamlessly design, prototype, and gather feedback in real time, while also offering additional offline capabilities through desktop applications for macOS and Win...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
$333M raised
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Description

  • 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, including incident response, postmortem culture, and resilience investments.
  • Set the technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability work with platform capabilities that speed up product engineering.
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands for a foundational platform team.
  • Recruit, retain, and grow infrastructure engineering talent and build a strong team culture.
  • Drive execution through 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 database operations and developer experience.
  • Lead engineers working on higher-level data products such as distributed caching and streaming infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams.
  • Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems.
  • Track record of earning credibility with senior engineers and making informed technical tradeoffs.
  • Ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems.
  • Experience developing engineers’ careers, including coaching promotions and navigating difficult performance conversations.
  • Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones.
  • Preferred: experience managing managers or leading multiple teams across related technical domains.
  • Preferred: experience defining org-wide technical vision and strategy across multiple work streams.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience operating relational databases at scale, including Postgres or MySQL sharding, replication, and migration strategies.
  • Preferred: familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted developer tooling and infrastructure operations.
  • Preferred: background in adjacent infrastructure domains such as caching, streaming/event processing, or observability.
  • Preferred: experience at a high-growth product company where infrastructure evolved rapidly alongside the product.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $258,000 to $376,000 USD, depending on location and qualifications.
  • Equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution.
  • Parental leave plus reproductive or family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous PTO and company recharge days.
  • Learning and development stipend, work-from-home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.

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