7 months ago
Base Salary
$228k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for the Build Systems team.
- Identify developer pain points with cross-functional partners and design scalable solutions.
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives to reduce build and test times and improve CI reliability.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable build systems, distributed CI platforms, and test frameworks serving thousands of engineers.
- Architect and implement large-scale AWS infrastructure powering Figma’s build pipeline.
- Mentor and develop teammates through technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural leadership.
- Collaborate with product engineers, infrastructure teams, and executive stakeholders while communicating technical decisions clearly.
- Track industry trends and incorporate relevant build systems, CI, and developer tooling technologies into the roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams.
- Deep expertise in build systems such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, or Gradle and experience operating large-scale monorepos.
- Experience optimizing CI/CD, building developer tooling at scale, and designing reliable, high-performance distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, CI platforms such as Buildkite, Infrastructure as Code, and strong coding skills in Go, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
- Proven technical leadership setting technical direction, driving cross-team initiatives, and communicating with diverse stakeholders.
- Experience migrating large codebases to modern build systems, especially Bazel, is a plus.
- Experience building test frameworks and improving test infrastructure is a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time role available from a US hub or remotely within the United States.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Retirement plan with company contribution.
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits.
- Generous paid time off and company recharge days.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Work-from-home stipend and cell phone reimbursement.
- Equity and annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- In-person onboarding is required if hired.
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