Software Engineer, Production Engineering (London, United Kingdom)

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!

Overview

The Production Engineering team focuses on end-to-end reliability, durability, scalability, and performance of Figma products and services.

We’re looking for an experienced Engineer to scale and drive the initiatives and programs that support Figma’s production engineering efforts, allowing our product teams to rapidly deliver new features.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the engineering team to define standard methodologies and goals around reliability, durability, scalability, and performance.
• Address common operational challenges through better telemetry and by building tools / services.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Participate in design reviews and production reviews for new features, products or infrastructure components.
• Plan for the growth of Figma’s infrastructure.
• Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating infrastructure components / services at scale.
• Proven grasp of Computer Science fundamentals and strong interest in distributed systems.
• Experience managing infrastructure services in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Demonstrated unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices.
• Track record for diagnosing problems within complex systems.
• Additional Qualifications
• Excellent problem solving and technical communication skills.
• Systematic and thorough approach, first‑principles thinking, bias for action.
• Driven by impact and willing to work on grungy problems with high impact.
• Deep care for quality of software / systems, artisan mentality, improvement mindset.
• Balance idealism and pragmatism.
• Ability to contribute to a close‑knit, inclusive, collaborative culture.
• Equal Opportunity Employer

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 or 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.

We celebrate and support our differences.

Accommodations

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 is 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.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma’s Candidate Privacy Notice.

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