Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Figma · Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $153K–$376K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 17 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
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…
What You’ll Do at Figma
Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that support product innovation and user collaboration at scale. Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute…
We’d Love to Hear From You If You Have
5+ years of Software Engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering.. Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding, replication, consistency, and eventual convergence. Experience with cloud-native…
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have
Experience scaling storage platforms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka. Background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio). A history of developing complex,…
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…
Pay Transparency Disclosure
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…
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