Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

Figma Inc

San Francisco, United States
Base: $258,000; bonus/equity: not specified; benef...
On-site
Infrastructure engineering
Database systems
Team leadership
Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning

Job Summary

  • Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning.
  • Own the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier — drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience.
  • Figma offers a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, and more.

Matching Summary

Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning.

Salary

Base: $258,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Infrastructure engineering
  • Database systems
  • Team leadership
  • Operational excellence
  • Technical roadmap

Nice-to-have

  • AI-assisted tooling
  • Distributed systems
  • Relational databases
  • On-call culture
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Key Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure or backend engineering teams
  • Proven technical depth in distributed systems or data-intensive backend systems
  • Track record of building or improving on-call culture and reliability practices
  • Experience developing engineers' careers

Work Rights

Not specified

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