Software Engineer, Databases

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

The Distributed Storage team is responsible for the stateful storage systems that power all of Figma’s applications. In order to support Figma’s accelerated growth, we tackle challenging scaling problems across our horizontally sharded Postgres platform, our Kafka based Streaming platform, and our Redis based caching platform. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, enjoy deep technical problems, and have an eye for building simple interfaces to offer our distributed storage systems to the rest of the Figma engineering organization.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Provide technical leadership on the long term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma.
• Design and build novel solutions for scaling our distributed storage systems.
• Collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve the reliability of our underlying systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to offer simple, maintainable APIs.
• Provide Figma engineering with new primitives to operate online data at scale.
• Unlock new revenue by building technical solutions for business problems.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 6+ years of experience building infrastructure components/services at scale.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or team lead.
• Experience building and operating core, “critical path” production services.
• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions.
• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments.
• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers.
• Excellent technical communication skills.

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• An advanced degree in Computer Science.
• Experience scaling stateful distributed systems.
• Experience with operating common database systems in production (e.g., Postgres, MySQL).
• Experience operating scalable database technologies in production (e.g., CockroachDB, Vitess).
• Experience with high performance server side languages (e.g., Golang, Rust).

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$149,000 - $350,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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