Software Engineer - Distributed Storage - Remote

Overview

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. 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.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Equity to employees.
• Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision.
• Retirement with company contribution.
• Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support.
• Mental health & wellness benefits.
• Generous PTO and company recharge days.
• Learning & development stipend.
• Work from home stipend.
• Cell phone reimbursement.