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!

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. This is a critical part of success for both our ability to build new products and features, support the growth of our user base, and enable innovation for all engineering (infrastructure and product teams, alike).

We’re looking for a generalist with a strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals. The ideal candidate will have experience building and running complex large scale services. Additionally, they will have a passion for building tools that simplify operating large-scale infrastructure and for improving the operational maturity of Figma.

What you'll do at Figma:

• 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

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

• 5+ years of experience operating infrastructure components/services at scale
• A proven grasp of Computer Science fundamentals and a 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
• A track record for being able to diagnose problems within complex systems

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

• Excellent problem solving skills and technical communication skills
• A systematic and thorough approach
• A bias for action and are driven by impact
• A willingness to work on grungy problems if they have a high impact on the business or the health of the infrastructure
• A deep care about the quality of the software/systems you build
• An artisan mentality and a desire to improve your craft
• The ability to strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism

Finally, Figma is a close-knit company with a strong culture that promotes inclusivity and collaboration, taking ambitious goals and having fun doing so. You deeply value these traits and see yourself actively contributing to it.

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 anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.

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• Holding interviews in an accessible location
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• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
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