Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether 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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

Figma's Databases team owns the foundational data layer that powers every Figma file, component, comment, and collaboration session. We operate sharded Postgres clusters at scale, build the tooling that keeps database operations safe and fast (schema migrations, provisioning, operational guardrails), and develop higher-level data products like distributed caching and streaming infrastructure.

As the Engineering Manager of this team, you'll lead engineers who are the last line of defense for Figma's most critical stateful systems and the first to build the next generation of database infrastructure as Figma scales. You'll partner closely with product engineering teams across the company, own reliability and performance for our data tier, and shape how we integrate AI into database operations.

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

What youll do at Figma:

Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning
Own the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience
Set technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability investments with platform capabilities that accelerate product engineering teams
Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands this is a foundational platform team that every product team depends on
Recruit, retain, and grow top infrastructure engineering talent build a team culture where engineers do the best work of their careers
Drive execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication of progress and risks to stakeholders
Collaborate with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure on shared operational standards and cross-cutting initiatives
Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations from schema guidance to automated migration safety checks

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

4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or >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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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