Head of Infrastructure, Software Engineering

6 days ago


New York, New York, United States Figma Full time
About the Role

Figma is a leading design and collaboration platform that empowers teams to create and innovate together. We're seeking an experienced leader to join our engineering team as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage and grow a diverse team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma's infrastructure.
  • Design and implement infrastructure to train, deploy, and serve models at scale.
  • Partner directly with ML/AI leaders, engineers, and researchers to build internal tools for model development and experimentation.
  • Develop and maintain industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML infrastructure.
  • Evangelize best practices throughout the engineering team to ensure high code quality.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects.
  • Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization.
Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team of at least 5 people.
  • 6+ years of overall industry experience building and scaling distributed systems and infrastructure components as a leader and/or individual contributor.
  • Experience managing Staff+ engineers with 10+ years of experience.
  • Experience building large-scale online systems and infrastructure to support ML workflows, like training & serving.
  • Experience collaborating with ML engineers to understand their requirements and ship systems that accelerate their productivity.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Hands-on work across the entire ML development workflow, including training, deployment, and serving.
  • Experience starting or joining an early-stage ML infra team or sub-team.
  • Experience working on models supporting generative AI use cases and/or LLMs.
About Figma

Figma is a remote-first company that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

Compensation and Benefits

Figma offers a competitive package of benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Figma is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.



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