Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

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