Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering
About The Position
Figma’s Production Engineering team embeds with product and platform teams to help them deliver reliable products faster. Its work spans the stack, from browser performance to backend services and infrastructure, and includes building tools and practices that reduce operational complexity, clarify important signals, and help teams operate their systems confidently. As Engineering Manager, you will own the team’s strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You will work with product and platform leaders to identify where the team can have the greatest impact, balancing immediate production needs with lasting improvements. The role calls for technical judgment to challenge assumptions and assess risk while giving engineers room to lead. This is a full-time role based at a Figma US hub or remotely in the United States.
Requirements
- Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers, helping them grow their technical judgment, leadership, and impact.
- Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale, with the technical judgment to guide decisions across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems.
- Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross-functional partners, earning trust beyond your reporting line, resolving competing priorities, and delivering shared business goals.
- Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations, with clear communication and respect for engineers’ technical ownership.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building shared reliability platforms, observability or distributed tracing systems, or tooling that reduces toil across multiple engineering teams.
- Familiarity with traffic management, service discovery or service meshes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, or capacity and performance engineering.
- Experience improving incident response processes and reducing on-call burden.
Responsibilities
- Coach and develop production engineers, including experienced technical leaders, through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams.
- Set priorities and guide delivery for the team’s embedded work with Figma’s product and platform organizations; align partners on outcomes, responsibilities, and tradeoffs, and resolve competing demands.
- Guide improvements to observability, incident response, and production tooling that reduce recurring toil, surface actionable signals, and make services easier for product teams to understand and operate.
- Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction, design, and production reviews, supporting their ownership of technical decisions and holding the team accountable for delivery.
- Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges with partner-team leaders and prioritize improvements that support upcoming product goals.
- Turn lessons from work with product teams and production incidents into reusable tools and practices that strengthen partner teams’ ownership and make on-call more sustainable.
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off, including employer-provided paid flexible PTO for exempt employees, subject to manager approval
- Paid sick leave and holidays
- Other leave benefits in compliance with applicable laws
- Company recharge days may be offered
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements may be offered
- Lifestyle spending accounts may be offered
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
