Figma

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$149k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems supporting product innovation and collaboration at scale.
  • Architect and evolve distributed storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration systems.
  • Build internal platforms, build tools, APIs, and other systems that improve developer experience.
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to create secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
  • Help shape platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues across services and layers of the stack.
  • Mentor engineers and foster collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including sharding, replication, consistency, and eventual convergence.
  • Experience with cloud-native environments, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
  • Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
  • Strong system-design skills and experience architecting resilient production systems.
  • Experience collaborating across teams and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience scaling storage platforms such as Postgres, Redis, S3, or DynamoDB.
  • Preferred experience operating streaming systems such as Kafka.
  • Preferred background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio.
  • Preferred experience developing real-time distributed systems and developer productivity tools or shared developer platforms at scale.

Benefits

  • Full-time role available from U.S. hubs or remotely within the United States.
  • Equity and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, retirement contributions, parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, mental health and wellness benefits, generous paid time off, company recharge days, learning and development stipend, work-from-home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
  • In-person onboarding is required if hired.
  • Annual bonus plan eligibility for non-sales roles.

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