Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform

Figma•San Francisco, CA

12h•$258,000 - $376,000•Remote

About The Position

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether 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 is a data-driven organization, and Data Platform builds the foundation that makes that possible. The platform powers everything from core business metrics and product analytics to the applied AI and experimentation systems that teams across the company rely on to build and make decisions. In this role, you'll lead engineers across Data Platform through their next phase of scale, setting technical direction, growing the team, and partnering broadly across the company. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

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
Ability to set technical direction, drive alignment, and prioritize clearly under ambiguity, paired with strong written communication

Nice To Haves

Expertise in large-scale data processing systems, such as batch, streaming, or applied AI and ML workloads
Experience with experimentation or feature flagging platforms
Experience evaluating and managing vendors
Experience growing tech leads and hiring at pace

Responsibilities

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