Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health/dental/vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Parental leave

Mental health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Production Engineering to own strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You will collaborate with product and platform leaders to balance immediate production needs with lasting improvements.

The role is full-time and can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States, emphasizing reliability, scalability, and empowering senior engineers to own technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers.
• Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale.
• Experience leading complex initiatives across teams and partners.
• Solid judgment on reliability, security, and sustainable operations.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop production engineers, including senior leaders, shaping technical strategy.
• Set priorities and guide delivery for embedded work with product/platform teams.
• Improve observability, incident response, and production tooling to reduce toil.
• Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction and ownership of decisions.
• Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges and align with product goals.
• Turn lessons from incidents into reusable tools and practices for on-call.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Systems design

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Observability platforms

Incident management tooling

Job description

Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to life - whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

As Engineering Manager, you'll own the team's strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You'll work with product and platform leaders to decide where the team can make the biggest difference, balancing immediate production needs with lasting improvements. You'll use your technical judgment to challenge assumptions and assess risk while giving engineers room to lead.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• 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

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers, helping them grow their technical judgment, leadership, and impact


• Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale, with the technical judgment to guide decisions across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems


• Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross‑functional partners, earning trust beyond your reporting line, resolving competing priorities, and delivering shared business goals


• Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations, with clear communication and respect for engineers’ technical ownership

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience building shared reliability platforms, observability or distributed tracing systems, or tooling that reduces toil across multiple engineering teams


• Familiarity with traffic management, service discovery or service meshes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, or capacity and performance engineering


• Experience improving incident response processes and reducing on‑call burden

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$258,000 - $376,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [e-mail]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location


• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing


• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers


• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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