Engineering Manager, AI & Observability Platform

Figma; United States; Remote; USD 258,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Observability to lead a 6-person team responsible for reliability, scalability, and evolution of the observability stack and AI observability pipeline.

You will set strategy for instrumentation and data quality, drive cross-functional alignment, and explore AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection and automation. This role supports remote work within the United States and requires strong leadership in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience leading and growing engineering teams in infrastructure, observability, platform, or AI systems.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and a platform mindset.
• Hands-on depth in observability, AI systems telemetry, or both.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a 6 engineer team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Figma's observability and AI observability platforms.
• Own and evolve the AI observability ecosystem: a privacy-safe telemetry pipeline that aggregates trace, conversation, and model data, runs classification, and lets teams run evals to measure and improve AI feature quality.
• Own Figma's core observability stack, including platforms like Datadog, ensuring high availability, strong data quality, and a healthy signal-to-noise ratio across metrics, logs, and traces.
• Set the technical strategy for the instrumentation standards, libraries, agents, and operators that monitor services across the company.
• Explore and ship AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection, root cause analysis, signal correlation, and operational automation.
• Partner across infrastructure, product engineering, finance, and security to give teams clear visibility into system health at scale, including cost efficiency as the team's scope grows.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Observability

AI systems telemetry

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Observability to lead a 6-person team responsible for reliability, scalability, and evolution of the observability stack and AI observability pipeline.

You will set strategy for instrumentation and data quality, drive cross-functional alignment, and explore AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection and automation. This role supports remote work within the United States and requires strong leadership in distributed systems.