Software Engineer, Figma

• 6+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or team lead
• Experience building and operating core, “critical path” production services
• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions
• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments
• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers
• Excellent technical communication skills

Desirable

• The Distributed Storage team is responsible for the stateful distributed systems that power all of Figma’s applications
• In order to support Figma’s accelerated growth, we tackle challenging scaling problems across our horizontally sharded Postgres platform (see our latest blog post on how we did it), our Kafka based Streaming platform, and our Redis based caching platform
• Provide technical leadership on the long term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma
• Design and build novel solutions for scaling our distributed storage systems
• Collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve the reliability of our underlying systems
• Collaborate with product teams to offer simple, maintainable APIs
• Provide Figma engineering with new primitives to operate online data at scale
• Unlock new revenue by building technical solutions for business problems