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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

1 month ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
AWS Azure CI/CD DynamoDB Envoy GCP Go Kafka PostgreSQL Python Redis Ruby Rust TypeScript
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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

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that support product innovation and user collaboration at scale.
  • Architect and evolve distributed systems, including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration.
  • Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs.
  • Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
  • Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the organization.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding, replication, consistency, and eventual convergence.
  • Experience with cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
  • Proficiency in one or more languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
  • Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems.
  • Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others.
  • Experience scaling storage platforms such as Postgres, Redis, S3, or DynamoDB, or operating streaming systems like Kafka (preferred).
  • Background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio (preferred).
  • Experience developing complex real-time distributed systems at scale (preferred).
  • Experience building developer productivity tools, including development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems (preferred).

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $153,000 to $376,000 USD.
  • Equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 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, and cell phone reimbursement.

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