[Remote] Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is a company on a mission to make design accessible to all, and they are seeking a Manager for their Software Engineering team focused on the Storage Platform. In this role, you will lead engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, ensure reliability and operational excellence, and drive the adoption of AI-assisted tooling.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
- Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems, with a track record of earning credibility with senior engineers and making informed technical tradeoffs
- Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals
- Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems
- Experience developing engineers' careers — you've coached people through promotions, navigated difficult performance conversations, and built teams that people want to join
- Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Experience managing managers or leading multiple teams across related technical domains
- Experience defining org-wide technical vision and strategy across multiple work streams
- Hands-on experience operating relational databases at scale (Postgres or MySQL) — including sharding, replication, and migration strategies
- Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted developer tooling and how it can transform infrastructure operations
- Background in adjacent infrastructure domains (caching, streaming/event processing, observability) that complement the database layer
- Experience at a high-growth product company where infrastructure needed to evolve rapidly alongside the product
Benefits
- Equity to employees
- Health, dental & vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health & wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- A learning & development stipend
- A work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
- An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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