Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform
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Overview
Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Storage Platform team to lead engineers in managing core database infrastructure and ensure operational excellence. Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
What you’ll do at Figma
- •Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning.
- •Own the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier — drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience.
- •Set technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability investments with platform capabilities that accelerate product engineering teams.
- •Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands — this is a foundational platform team that every product team depends on.
- •Recruit, retain, and grow top infrastructure engineering talent — build a team culture where engineers do the best work of their careers.
- •Drive execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication of progress and risks to stakeholders.
- •Collaborate with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure on shared operational standards and cross-cutting initiatives.
- •Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations — from schema guidance to automated migration safety checks.
What Figma offers
- •Competitive salary and equity.
- •Health, dental & vision benefits.
- •Retirement with company contribution.
- •Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support.
- •Mental health & wellness benefits.
- •Generous PTO and company recharge days.
- •Learning & development stipend.
- •Work from home stipend and cell phone reimbursement.
- •Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
We’d love to hear from you if you have
- •4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams.
- •Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems, with a track record of earning credibility with senior engineers and making informed technical tradeoffs.
- •Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals.
- •Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems.
- •Experience developing engineers' careers — you've coached people through promotions, navigated difficult performance conversations, and built teams that people want to join.
- •Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones.