Software Engineer, Figma
Traffic
$168-350k
Salary benchmarked for candidates based in SF or NY, may vary in other locations. + Equity
Design platform for product teams
Job no longer available
Design platform for product teams
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$168-350k
Salary benchmarked for candidates based in SF or NY, may vary in other locations. + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for thoughtful and technical leaders with experience focused on designing the next generation edge and network to handle our growing customer traffic and services
- Have 4+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale in a cloud setting
- Experience with programming languages like TypeScript or Go
- Experience building and scaling distributed and traffic systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead
- Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Prior experience working on a team dealing with Network and Traffic related systems handling requests from millions of customers
Desirable
- Deep knowledge of DDoS attack mechanisms and mitigation solutions on AWS or Cloud environments
- Significant background securing network infrastructure
- Traffic analytics using VPC Flow Logs, Lambda, and other data sources
- Experience with TCP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL protocols
- Experience with network proxies like Envoy and Haproxy
- Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio
What the job involves
- Design, build and operate scalable distributed systems and services that power Figma’s innovative tools for design and collaboration
- Develop and secure our internal and edge network running on AWS
- Help design and deploy an internal service mesh network which can support Figma’s growing portfolio of services and features
- Develop intelligent detection and auto-scaling countermeasures for DDoS threats
- Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.
Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.
Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
97% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2024
$415.7m
SERIES F
Jan 2022
$0.5m
SERIES E
Total funding: $749.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health, Dental, & Vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Company values
- Build community
- Run with it
- Love your craft
- Grow as you go
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Dylan Field
(CEO)Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.
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