Figma
Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering
$258K–$376K
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US
About the job
Leads Figma’s Production Engineering team, setting strategy and priorities while improving reliability, observability, incident response, and production operations across product and platform teams.
What you'll do
- Coach and develop production engineers and guide their technical leadership.
- Set priorities, align partner teams, and deliver embedded engineering work across product and platform organizations.
- Guide reliability, observability, incident response, and tooling improvements that reduce operational toil and support product goals.
What they ask for
- Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers.
- Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale, with technical judgment across the stack.
- Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
- Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations, with clear communication.
Nice to have
- Experience building shared reliability platforms, observability or distributed tracing systems, or toil-reducing tools.
- Familiarity with traffic management, service discovery, service meshes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, capacity or performance engineering, or incident response improvement.
Pay
$258,000 — $376,000 USD annual base salary
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