Software Engineer Infrastructure

TL;DR

Software Engineer Infrastructure (Backend): Design, build, and operate scalable and reliable infrastructure systems powering real-time collaborative design tools used globally with an accent on distributed systems, cloud-native environments, and developer tooling. Focus on architecting resilient production systems, improving developer experience, and resolving complex production issues.

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY hubs or remote within the United States

Salary: $149,000 - $350,000 USD annually

Company

Figma is a leading design platform empowering teams to collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems supporting product innovation and user collaboration.
• Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration.
• Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs.
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues spanning multiple services and stack layers.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding, replication, and consistency.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
• Strong system design skills and experience architecting resilient production systems.
• Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring others.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling storage platforms like Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB or operating streaming systems like Kafka.
• Background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (Envoy, Istio).
• Experience developing complex real-time distributed systems at scale.
• Passion for building developer productivity tools including CI/CD pipelines and build systems.
• Experience evolving large-scale shared developer platforms to improve reliability and velocity.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity and competitive benefits including health, dental, vision, retirement contributions, parental leave, and mental health support.
• Generous PTO, company recharge days, learning and development stipend, work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with accommodations for disabilities.
• Remote work allowed within the United States with in-person onboarding and camera-on video interviews.