Director, Software Engineering - Platform Services [Remote]

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

Platform Services owns the core distributed systems that power key Figma functionality like multiplayer editing, realtime collaboration, complex file systems, and advanced search capabilities. This team works on some of the deepest technical challenges across Figma engineering, while also working closely with product and platform teams to ensure all of Figma’s product surfaces are performant, easy to use, and provide the consistent, magical experience that our customers have come to expect.

We’re looking for a seasoned Engineering leader to manage, support and grow a team of Engineering Managers and Senior-level ICs in this critical area as Figma continues to build our best-in-class design and collaboration products.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• As a Director of Engineering for Platform Services, you will lead an engineering organization, defining and developing the roadmap and technical strategy for our next generation of critical product infrastructure
• Work closely with Engineering Teams to define and build the infrastructure foundation to support best-in-class realtime collaboration experiences
• Support the development of new teams and areas in Infrastructure, such as Search Platform
• Build a healthy, scalable, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering organization. Not only help with Platform Services, but also help broader Infrastructure and Figma Engineering initiatives
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. You will play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience hiring and leading teams as an engineering leader with at least 2 years of experience managing managers
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering roles, ideally reaching staff level as an individual contributor
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems in an online environment that directly serve production traffic
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers and engineering managers
• Strong partnership mentality and ability to manage multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups across technical and non-technical teams

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience building and scaling modern Search platforms and technology, with expertise in  OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or other search engine technologies
• Experience building infrastructure for products integrated with LLMs and/or generative AI
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing query systems, implementing technologies such as GraphQL

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.    

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. 

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$316,000—$381,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status , or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to View email address on swooped.co . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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