Figma - New York, NY
posted 7 days ago
Full-time - Manager
Remote - New York, NY
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Manager of Software Engineering for the Search Platform at Figma is responsible for leading a team of engineers to design and build scalable services that enhance Figma's search capabilities. This role involves managing the development of a flexible indexing solution, collaborating with various product teams, and establishing a positive work environment while driving initiatives for inclusivity and diversity within the team.
Responsibilities
- Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers who design and build scalable services for Figma's search platform.
- Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Search platform capabilities.
- 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.
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.
- Strong expertise in OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or other search engine technologies, with experience managing such search clusters at scale to serve production-facing traffic.
- Experience with designing and managing scalable, high-performance, and reliable search infrastructure.
- Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
- Skills in optimizing search performance and reducing time-to-index latency.
- Familiarity with indexing and caching strategies, load balancing, and other performance-enhancing techniques.
- 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.
- Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Dental insurance coverage
- Vision insurance coverage
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave
- Reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- Learning and development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
