8 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.
About Figma
Figma builds a browser-based platform for interface design, prototyping, whiteboarding, and developer handoff used by product, design, and engineering teams. Its main products—Figma Design and FigJam—are sold as SaaS with tiered subscriptions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, plus an ecosystem of plugins and integrations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and enables real-time collaboration on the web and desktop apps.