Software Engineer, Figma

• We are looking for engineers who are excited about scaling stateful distributed systems, and who have an eye for building expressive APIs for querying dynamic source-of-truth data
• A successful engineer will help define how realtime product experiences are built across Figma’s product suite
• 5+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale
• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients
• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users
• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments
• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers
• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions
• Excellent technical communication skills

Desirable

• Design, build and operate Livegraph, a realtime query system, as well as Livegraph subsystems
• Drive down tech debt and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve reliability, efficiency, and developer velocity
• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack