Software Engineer, Figma

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, both search clusters and also services around them
• Strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr
• Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing
• Proficiency in optimizing search performance and reducing latency
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of completing projects that required cross-functional partnership
• The ability to break down complex topics to successfully communicate with various audiences.

Desirable

• The Search Platform team builds the infrastructure powering Figma’s search capabilities, including innovations like visual search in the Figma AI bundle
• As an engineer on the team, you'll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects like a low-code indexing solution that empowers various product teams to index new data sets and iterate rapidly
• Also, our new AI-powered re-ranking architecture, which will blend lexical and vector search results into the most relevant results
• You'll scale search infrastructure for Figma’s ever growing data sets of file data and design systems components, while adding support for new content types like AI content recommendations
• While driving these new search capabilities, we’ll also be constantly improving the overall search experiences across Figma
• This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient infrastructure for Figma’s search platform, focusing on centralizing and standardizing solutions
• Improve the internal developer experience of working with search by developing low-code interfaces that allow product teams to easily index and manage data for new and existing search use-cases
• Collaborate with the Search Quality, Search Experience, and other product teams to ensure seamless integration of search infrastructure with product-side logic
• Contribute to the development of a new unified search indexing and backfilling pipeline
• Enhance observability and monitoring of search clusters to provide infrastructure-level SLO guarantees
• Participate in setting the technical direction and strategy for search technologies, aligning with the long-term vision of the Search Platform team