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Overview
Join Figma as a Software Engineer, Traffic, to design and operate scalable systems that power innovative design tools. Work remotely or from US hubs, with a competitive salary and benefits. 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
- •Design, build and operate scalable distributed systems and services that power Figma's innovative tools for design and collaboration.
- •Develop and secure our internal and edge network running on AWS.
- •Help design and deploy an internal service mesh network which can support Figma's growing portfolio of services and features.
- •Develop intelligent detection and auto-scaling countermeasures for DDoS threats.
- •Debug and resolve production issues across services and multiple layers of the stack, reducing mean time to resolution for critical incidents.
What Figma offers
- •Competitive salary with 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 building infrastructure components and services at scale in a cloud environment.
- •Experience with programming languages like TypeScript or Go.
- •Experience building and scaling distributed and traffic systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead.
- •Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments.
- •Experience communicating cross-functionally and working with teams handling network and traffic systems at scale for millions of customers.
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have
- •Deep knowledge of DDoS attack mechanisms and mitigation solutions on AWS or Cloud environments.
- •Significant background securing network infrastructure.
- •Traffic analytics using VPC Flow Logs, Lambda, and other data sources.
- •Experience with TCP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL protocols.
- •Experience with network proxies like Envoy and Haproxy.