Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

Figma
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 185,000 - 317,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Planning","Stakeholder management","Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Technical Program Manager to drive cross-team infrastructure initiatives at Figma. You’ll lead execution, risk management, and coordination across backend, infrastructure, and security teams, focusing on scalability, performance, and compliance (encryption, FedRAMP, SOC 2) while communicating status to executives and partners.

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Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Technical Program Manager to drive cross-team infrastructure initiatives at Figma. You’ll lead execution, risk management, and coordination across backend, infrastructure, and security teams, focusing on scalability, performance, and compliance (encryption, FedRAMP, SOC 2) while communicating status to executives and partners.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of infrastructure projects across multiple teams to ensure seamless integration with minimal performance impact
  • •Drive key infrastructure initiatives including reliability, storage, distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
  • •Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and legal to ensure alignment and on-time delivery
  • •Track program milestones and ensure delivery across data, caching, observability, and security engineering teams
  • •Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on status, risks, blockers, and dependencies

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 317,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirementParental LeaveLearning BudgetRemote WorkCell Phone

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering) with hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
  • •Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details
  • •Track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs such as migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, and reliability initiatives for high-availability, business-critical services
  • •Strong cross-functional program management skills, including coordinating multi-team engineering orgs, tracking performance bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure SLAs, and establishing PM best practices in ambiguous environments
  • •Proven stakeholder management, with experience engaging external partners (cloud providers, enterprise customers) and translating complex technical challenges into clear executive-level communications
Experience:8+ yearsCloudInfrastructureSREDistributed systems
Skills:PlanningStakeholder managementCommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSGCPOpenSearchKafkaRedisS3RDSDynamoDBEncryptionFedRAMPSOC 2Cloud-nativeSecuritySRE

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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