Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Figma
San Francisco, Canada, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 228,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring"]

Lead and shape Build Systems platforms within Figma's Developer Experience, driving roadmaps, mentoring a team, and delivering scalable, high-performance infrastructure on AWS to accelerate engineering velocity across a large monorepo. You will partner with cross-functional teams, design developer tools, and guide multi-quarter initiatives to reduce build and CI times while maintaining technical excellence.

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Figma
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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Summary

Lead and shape Build Systems platforms within Figma's Developer Experience, driving roadmaps, mentoring a team, and delivering scalable, high-performance infrastructure on AWS to accelerate engineering velocity across a large monorepo. You will partner with cross-functional teams, design developer tools, and guide multi-quarter initiatives to reduce build and CI times while maintaining technical excellence.
Location: San Francisco, Canada, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive technical roadmap and strategy for the Build Systems team
  • •Partner with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify developer pain points and design elegant, scalable solutions
  • •Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives reducing build/test times and improving CI reliability, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery
  • •Design, build, and maintain modern developer tools including scalable build systems, distributed CI platforms, and test frameworks that serve thousands of engineers
  • •Architect and implement large-scale infrastructure on AWS that powers our entire build pipeline to ensure reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 228,000 - 350,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceRetirementParental LeaveLearning BudgetDental

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams
  • •Deep expertise in build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle) and operating large-scale monorepos
  • •Experience optimizing CI/CD, building developer tooling at scale, and designing reliable, high-performance distributed systems
  • •Hands-on experience with AWS, CI platforms (e.g., Buildkite), Infrastructure as Code, and strong coding skills in languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby
  • •Proven technical leadership, with a track record of setting technical direction, driving cross-team initiatives, and communicating effectively across a wide range of stakeholders
Experience:8+ yearsBuild systemsMonoreposCi/cdDeveloper tooling
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:BazelBuckPantsGradleAWSBuildkiteGoTypeScriptPythonRubyInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD

Company Brief

Figma
Design collaboration platform for teams that enables interface design, prototyping, and real-time collaboration in the browser. Figma streamlines product design workflows, handoff to developers, and design system management for organizations of all sizes.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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