Figma
Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability
$258K–$376K
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Feb 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US - Experience
- 4+ years leading and growing engineering teams.
About the job
Leads a six-engineer team building Figma’s core and AI observability platforms, improving visibility into production systems and AI feature quality.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop the observability team and own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of its platforms.
- Set strategy for telemetry pipelines, instrumentation standards, and core observability tools; ensure data quality and availability.
- Drive AI-assisted anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and operational automation in partnership with cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- 4+ years leading and growing engineering teams in infrastructure, observability, platform, or AI systems.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems and platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience in observability, AI systems telemetry, or both.
- Operational expertise in instrumentation, data quality, SLO design, and incident response; able to set technical direction and align stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience spanning classic and AI observability, or AI Telemetry-assisted improvement feedback loops.
- Experience with infrastructure efficiency, company-wide observability standards, AI/ML operations, or scaling and mentoring teams.
Pay
USD 258,000–376,000 annual base salary
Tools
Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus
AI focus
Builds AI observability pipelines for classification and evals, and explores AI-driven anomaly detection, root cause analysis, signal correlation, and operational automation.
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