Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform

Figma, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building and operating Figma's data platform, owning delivery, technical direction, and team health.
• Set the roadmap and technical strategy for your sub area, and provide hands-on technical leadership where the team needs it.
• Drive the reliability, scalability, and forward strategy of the platform as adoption grows across the engineering and product organization.
• Hire, grow, and coach engineers and tech leads, raising the bar and building a healthy, inclusive, high-performing team.
• Partner with Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering to identify the highest-leverage priorities and drive alignment.
• Make sound build versus buy decisions, including evaluating and managing platform vendors where it makes sense.
• Keep delivery predictable while balancing near-term execution with long-term platform investment.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years managing engineers, including senior ICs or tech leads, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling data platform or data infrastructure systems in a production, online environment.
• A strong software engineering background with senior or staff-level technical depth before moving into management, and enough current depth to set direct technical direction.
• Strong partnership mentality and the ability to manage multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups such as Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off.
• Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• Employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave.
• Company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts.
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

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About Figma, Inc.

Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping platform that enables teams to create, collaborate on, and share user interface and user experience designs in real time. It combines vector graphics editing, prototyping tools, and developer handoff capabilities in a browser-based workspace. Founded in 2012, the company serves product designers, engineers, and stakeholders across organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Figma's multiplayer editing, version control, and component libraries streamline the design-to-development workflow, reducing friction between design and engineering teams. The platform supports integrations with popular development and project management tools to facilitate end-to-end product development processes.

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