Software Engineer – Figfile Platform

Software Engineer – Figfile Platform

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems.
• Proven track record of identifying opportunities for and successfully shipping high-quality products in high growth environments.
• Excellent technical communication skills and experience working across multiple teams and functions.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and promoting a collaborative team culture.
• Have excellent problem solving skills. You use a systematic and thorough approach. You think from first principles and have a bias for action. You are driven by impact. You are willing to work on grungy problems if they have a high impact on the business or the health of the infrastructure.
• Care deeply about the quality of the software / systems you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft. At the same time you are able to strike the right balance between idealism and practicality.

Responsibilities

• Work with amazing engineers, building infra that makes working with FigFiles fast, easy, and secure.
• Work with leadership, stakeholders, and peers to build and evolve our systems into a multi-product platform.
• Define, de-risk, and organize engineering efforts that contribute to team and company goals.
• Build out roadmaps for extending and evolving Figma’s infrastructure.
• Work with engineers across the company to build innovative new features that operate at scale.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building infrastructure that powers real-time collaborative experiences.
• Working in a multi-language environment. We own services written in Rust, Ruby, TypeScript, and Go.
• Cloud infrastructure
• Building and maintaining APIs.