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Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

$258k - $376k
Full-time

Figma

Role Description

As the Engineering Manager of Figma's Databases team, you'll lead engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including:

  • Sharded Postgres clusters
  • Schema management
  • Migrations tooling
  • Database provisioning

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Owning the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier
  • Driving incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience
  • Setting technical direction and roadmap for the area
  • Partnering with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands
  • Recruiting, retaining, and growing top infrastructure engineering talent
  • Driving execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication
  • Collaborating with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure
  • Championing the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
  • Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems
  • Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains
  • Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices
  • Experience developing engineers' careers
  • Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones

Requirements

  • 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 (Postgres or MySQL) (preferred)
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted developer tooling (preferred)
  • Background in adjacent infrastructure domains (caching, streaming/event processing, observability) (preferred)
  • Experience at a high-growth product company where infrastructure needed to evolve rapidly (preferred)

Benefits

  • Equity to employees
  • Health, dental & vision insurance
  • Retirement with company contribution
  • Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
  • Mental health & wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work from home stipend
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
  • Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
Vacancy posted 6 days ago
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