Software Engineer - Distributed Storage

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

The Distributed Storage team is responsible for the stateful storage systems that power all of Figma’s applications. In order to support Figma’s accelerated growth, we tackle challenging scaling problems across our horizontally sharded Postgres platform (see our latest blog post on how we did it), our Kafka based Streaming platform, and our Redis based caching platform. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, enjoy deep technical problems, and have an eye for building simple interfaces to offer our distributed storage systems to the rest of the Figma engineering organization.

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:

• Provide technical leadership on the long term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma.

• Design and build novel solutions for scaling our distributed storage systems.

• Collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve the reliability of our underlying systems.

• Collaborate with product teams to offer simple, maintainable APIs.

• Provide Figma engineering with new primitives to operate online data at scale.

• Unlock new revenue by building technical solutions for business problems.

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

• 6+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale.

• Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or team lead.

• Experience building and operating core, “critical path” production services.

• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions.

• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments.

• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers.

• Excellent technical communication skills.

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

• An advanced degree in Computer Science.

• Experience scaling stateful distributed systems.

• Experience with operating common database systems in production (e.g., Postgres, MySql).

• Experience operating scalable database technologies in production (e.g., CockroachDB, Vitess).

• Experience with high performance server side languages (e.g., Golang, Rust).

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.