Software Engineer, Developer Experience

5 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

Description

  • Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for the Build Systems team.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify developer pain points and design scalable solutions.
  • Lead multi-quarter initiatives to reduce build and test times and improve CI reliability.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable build systems, distributed CI platforms, and test frameworks.
  • Architect and implement large-scale AWS infrastructure that powers the build pipeline.
  • Mentor and uplevel teammates through technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural leadership.
  • Collaborate with product engineers, infrastructure teams, and executive stakeholders.
  • Communicate technical decisions clearly to audiences ranging from individual contributors to senior leadership.
  • Track industry trends and incorporate relevant build, CI, and developer tooling technologies into the roadmap.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams.
  • Deep expertise in build systems such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, or Gradle.
  • Experience operating large-scale monorepos.
  • Experience optimizing CI/CD, building developer tooling at scale, and designing reliable, high-performance distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS.
  • Experience with CI platforms such as Buildkite.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
  • Strong coding skills in Go, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
  • Proven technical leadership with experience setting technical direction and driving cross-team initiatives.
  • Strong communication skills across a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Experience migrating large codebases to modern build systems, especially Bazel, is a plus.
  • Experience building test frameworks and improving test infrastructure is a plus.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $185,000 to $376,000 USD.
  • Equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution.
  • Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous PTO and company recharge days.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Work-from-home stipend.
  • Cell phone reimbursement.
  • Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

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