Engineering Manager, Production & Reliability (Remote)

Figma; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 258,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan with company tit?les

Parental leave and family planning

Mental health benefits

Paid time off

Flexible PTO

Sick leave and holidays

Recharge days

Cell phone reimbursement

Home internet reimbursement

Lifestyle spending accounts

Annual bonus plan

Job summary

Figma seeks an Engineering Manager for Production Engineering to own team strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You’ll guide embedded work with product/platform teams and drive reliability and tooling improvements across services.

You’ll partner with engineers on long-term direction, assess risk, and balance immediate production needs with lasting improvements. This role can be remote within the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers.
• Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
• Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop production engineers, including experienced technical leaders, through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams
• Set priorities and guide delivery for the team’s embedded work with Figma’s product and platform organizations. Align partners on outcomes, responsibilities, and tradeoffs, and resolve competing demands
• Guide improvements to observability, incident response, and production tooling that reduce recurring toil, surface actionable signals, and make services easier for product teams to understand and operate
• Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction, design, and production reviews, supporting their ownership of technical decisions and holding the team accountable for delivery
• Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges alongside partner-team leaders, and prioritize improvements that support upcoming product goals
• Turn lessons from work with product teams and production incidents into reusable tools and practices that strengthen partner teams’ ownership and make on-call more sustainable

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Observability

Incident response

Production tooling

Job description

Figma seeks an Engineering Manager for Production Engineering to own team strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You’ll guide embedded work with product/platform teams and drive reliability and tooling improvements across services.

You’ll partner with engineers on long-term direction, assess risk, and balance immediate production needs with lasting improvements. This role can be remote within the United States.