Senior Backend Platform Engineer (Ruby) - Remote

Nubeero Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with strong production Ruby experience to shape shared frameworks powering REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. You will partner with product engineers and Infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, and velocity across the platform.

We value engineers who can translate complex tradeoffs into durable systems and who can mentor others while raising the bar on technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby.
• Building and evolving large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases.
• Designing reliable distributed systems at production scale including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
• Improve availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality.
• Modernize a large Ruby codebase with safer architectural changes and stronger endpoint abstractions.
• Improve hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, and debugging tools.
• Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery of Figma's asynchronous job platform.
• Collaborate with product engineers and Infrastructure teams to identify pain points and create reusable platform capabilities.
• Establish pragmatic engineering practices through libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and guidance.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of high technical standards and shared ownership.

Skills

Ruby

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Observability

Tools

AWS SQS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Temporal

EKS

Job description

Figma is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with strong production Ruby experience to shape shared frameworks powering REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. You will partner with product engineers and Infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, and velocity across the platform.

We value engineers who can translate complex tradeoffs into durable systems and who can mentor others while raising the bar on technical excellence.