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Figma

Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools

$258K–$376K

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026

Location
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US
Experience
3+ years managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams; Staff-level or above technical depth before moving into management.

About the job

Leads the team and technical strategy for Figma’s AI developer workflows and cloud agent platform, improving engineering productivity across the company.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow the engineering team building and operating AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform.
  • Set technical strategy and roadmap across sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and agentic workflows.
  • Drive platform reliability and adoption, evaluate AI tools and frameworks, and establish quality, cost, and impact evaluations.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams, with a track record of scaling teams and delivering high-performing systems.
  • Strong software engineering background with Staff-level or above technical depth before moving into management; deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and production infrastructure at scale.
  • Demonstrated builder fluency with AI/ML systems, LLM-based workflows, or agent architectures.
  • Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience building AI developer tooling, agent platforms, or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar systems; MCP integrations; workflow orchestration platforms; or developer experience platforms.

Pay

$258,000 — $376,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Cursor, Claude Code, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Temporal, n8n, Tines, CI/CD, Bazel/Blaze

AI focus

Builds and operates AI-assisted developer workflows and cloud agents, evaluates AI tools, models, and agent frameworks, and measures the quality, cost, and impact of AI-generated code and agentic workflows.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)