Figma
Software Engineer - Developer Experience
$185K–$376K
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Full-time · Posted Feb 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US - Experience
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams.
About the job
Leads the Build Systems team’s strategy and develops scalable build, CI, and test infrastructure that helps Figma engineers ship software quickly and reliably.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead multi-quarter initiatives to reduce build and test times and improve CI reliability.
- Design, build, and operate developer tools and AWS infrastructure for Figma’s build pipeline.
- Mentor teammates and partner with engineering, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams.
- Deep expertise in build systems and operating large-scale monorepos.
- Experience optimizing CI/CD, building developer tooling at scale, and designing reliable distributed systems.
- Hands-on AWS, CI platforms, Infrastructure as Code, coding skills in languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby, and proven technical leadership.
Nice to have
- Experience migrating large codebases to modern build systems, especially Bazel.
- Experience building test frameworks and improving test infrastructure.
Pay
$185,000 — $376,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, AWS, Buildkite, Go, TypeScript
AI focus
Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude to write, debug, and optimize code is a plus.
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