Software Engineer
Infrastructure
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Locations
San Francisco, CA, USA • New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
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Desired Skills
Communications
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale. You have a proven grasp of Computer Science fundamentals and have a strong interest in distributed systems
- Are driven by impact. You are willing to work on grungy problems if they have a high impact on the business or the health of the infrastructure
- Care deeply about the quality of the software / systems you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft. At the same time you are able to strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism
- Have excellent problem solving skills. You use a systematic and thorough approach. You think from first principles and have a bias for action
- Have excellent technical communication skills
- Finally, Figma is a close-knit company with a strong culture that promotes inclusivity and collaboration, taking ambitious goals and having fun doing so. You deeply value these traits and see yourself actively contributing to it
- Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design
- How work is changing at Figma
- Figma's next product is a multiplayer whiteboard called FigJam
- A new collaboration with Adobe
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate scalable backend systems and services that power Figma's innovative tools for design and collaboration
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Work with engineers across the company to build innovative new features that operate at scale
- Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Collaborative online design tools
Company Overview
Figma's mission to make design accessible to everyone. The company operates a suite of suite of industry leading collaborative design tools.
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Retirement with company contribution
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Company recharge days
- Work from home stipend
- Health, Dental, & Vision
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Generous PTO
- Learning & development stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Company Core Values
- Build community - We’re multiplayer people who love the weird, wonderful magic that happens when people connect. We build bridges — with both our Figmates and our users.
- Run with it - Building Figma is about taking initiative, being bold and charting a new course, not running a playbook. Figmates are building the future of design by tackling big, scary, exciting challenges like Figma’s future depends on it. Because it does.
- Love your craft - We build for builders and try to make complex things feel simple. We ask why until we get to the core and continually focus on solving the right problem, not just shipping work.
- Grow as you go - Everyone’s a work in progress, and we’re here to help each other grow. With humility and curiosity, we give and get the ❤️ and 💯, and the direct feedback we all need to become great.