Software Engineering Manager, Figma

Machine Learning Infrastructure

$240-350k

Salary is applicable to candidates based in SF or NY + Equity

Figma
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Figma

Design platform for product teams

Open for applications

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

$240-350k

Salary is applicable to candidates based in SF or NY + Equity

Figma
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years managing an engineering team of at least 5 people
  • 6+ years overall industry experience building and scaling distributed systems and infrastructure components as a leader and/or individual contributor
  • Experience managing Staff+ engineers with 10+ years of experience
  • Experiencing building large-scale online systems and infrastructure to support ML workflows, like training & serving
  • Experience collaborating with ML engineers to understand their requirements and ship systems that accelerate their productivity

Desirable

  • A commitment to build an inclusive and diverse culture
  • Hands-on work across the entire ML development workflow, including training, deployment, and serving
  • Experience starting or joining an early-stage ML infra team or sub-team
  • Experience working on models supporting generative AI use cases and/or LLMs

What the job involves

  • You will be building and leading the team that owns the core infrastructure to serve and deploy models efficiently, as well as world-class tooling that enables us to iterate on models quickly
  • You will be combining industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design, and build ML infrastructure that will improve Figma’s design and collaboration tool
  • Manage, support, and grow a diverse team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s infrastructure
  • Design infrastructure to train, deploy, and serve models at scale
  • Partner directly with ML/AI leaders, engineers, and researchers to build internal tools for model development and experimentation
  • Combine industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML infrastructure
  • Evangelize best practices throughout the engineering team to keep code quality high
  • Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
  • Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
  • Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community

Our take

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.

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Insights

Top investors

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

Leadership

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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