Manager, Software Engineering - Livegraph

Figma - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Engineering Manager for Livegraph at Figma will lead a team responsible for developing scalable services that enhance Figma's infrastructure. This role involves strategic planning, team management, and fostering a positive work environment while driving technical innovation and collaboration across teams. The position is crucial for supporting the growth of Figma's design and collaboration products, ensuring reliability and performance in real-time web and mobile experiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage, support, and develop a team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma's infrastructure.
• Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Livegraph.
• Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects.
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization.
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community.
• Give back technical innovation into the software engineering community through talks at conferences, open source contributions, blog posts, and external evangelism.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team.
• 5+ years experience building and scaling distributed systems as a leader and/or individual contributor.
• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients.
• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team.

Nice-to-haves

• A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions.
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing query systems, implementing technologies such as GraphQL.
• Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools.
• Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company's distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach.
• A love for new programming languages and syntaxes.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours or remote work options.
• Opportunities for professional development and learning.
• Inclusive and diverse team culture.