Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Figma is hiring a Software Engineer for its Infrastructure team to build and operate systems powering its real-time collaborative design tools. The role focuses on scalable distributed systems, infrastructure reliability, developer platforms, and collaboration across product and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that support product innovation and user collaboration at scale
• Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration
• Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems
• Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the organization
• Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding, replication, consistency, and eventual convergence
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration
• Proficiency in languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Ruby
• Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems
• Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others
• Experience scaling storage platforms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka
• Background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio)
• A history of developing complex, realtime distributed systems at scale
• A passion for building developer productivity tools, including development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems
• Experience with evolving large-scale, shared developer platforms to improve reliability and developer velocity
• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias for action—especially when tackling high-impact, gritty challenges