Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building and operating Figma’s data platform, owning delivery, technical direction, and team health
• Set the roadmap and technical strategy for your sub area, and provide hands on technical leadership where the team needs it
• Drive the reliability, scalability, and forward strategy of the platform as adoption grows across the engineering and product organization
• Hire, grow, and coach engineers and tech leads, raising the bar and building a healthy, inclusive, high-performing team
• Partner with Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering to identify the highest-leverage priorities and drive alignment
• Make sound build versus buy decisions, including evaluating and managing platform vendors where it makes sense
• Keep delivery predictable while balancing near-term execution with long-term platform investment, * Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be 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.

• 3+ years managing engineers, including senior ICs or tech leads, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling data platform or data infrastructure systems in a production, online environment
• A strong software engineering background with senior or staff-level technical depth before moving into management, and enough current depth to set direct technical direction
• Strong partnership mentality and the ability to manage multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups such as Data Science, Product, Finance, and Engineering
• Ability to set technical direction, drive alignment, and prioritize clearly under ambiguity, paired with strong written communication, * Expertise in large-scale data processing systems, including batch, streaming, or applied AI and ML workloads
• Familiarity with experimentation or feature flagging platforms
• A track record of evaluating and managing vendor relationships
• A demonstrated ability to develop tech leads and scale hiring at pace, 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 role), market demands, and specific work location.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law. Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000-$376,000 USD

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!

Figma is a data-driven organization, and Data Platform builds the foundation that makes that possible. The platform powers everything from core business metrics and product analytics to the applied AI and experimentation systems that teams across the company rely on to build and make decisions. In this role, you’ll lead engineers across Data Platform through their next phase of scale, setting technical direction, growing the team, and partnering broadly across the company.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.