Director, AI DevEx & Cloud Agent Platform

Figma; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 258,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Figma is seeking a leader to grow the AI Developer Experience team, owning the strategy for AI workflows and the cloud agent platform. You will hire, mentor, and scale engineers, driving reliability and adoption across the engineering org.

You’ll partner across product, security, and infrastructure to guide tradeoffs between build vs. buy and to shape a long-term, scalable AI tooling roadmap that elevates developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering background with distributed systems experience.
• Fluency with AI/ML systems, LLM-based workflows, or agent architectures.
• Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to set technical direction and balance speed with long-term sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience across infrastructure and orchestration.
• Hire and scale the team, establishing culture, cadence, and processes.
• Drive reliability, observability, and scalability of the cloud agent platform.
• Partner with product, security, infra, and DevEx teams to drive adoption of AI workflows.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools and frameworks and decide build vs. buy strategy.
• Establish evaluation frameworks to measure AI-generated code quality and impact.
• Coach engineers on career development, performance, and leadership.

Skills

Team management

AI/ML systems

Distributed systems

Architectural decisions

Hiring engineering teams

Technical strategy

Tools

Temporal

n8n

Tines

Bazel/Blaze

Job description

Figma is seeking a leader to grow the AI Developer Experience team, owning the strategy for AI workflows and the cloud agent platform. You will hire, mentor, and scale engineers, driving reliability and adoption across the engineering org.

You’ll partner across product, security, and infrastructure to guide tradeoffs between build vs. buy and to shape a long-term, scalable AI tooling roadmap that elevates developer productivity.