Distributed Systems Architect

3 days ago


New York, New York, United States Figma Full time

Figma's Application Platform team is responsible for developing the core backend platform, which includes data access frameworks, asynchronous jobs platforms, developer tools, and more. We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Architect to join our team and contribute to the development of our platform.

About the Role

This is a full-time position that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the continental United States. As a Distributed Systems Architect on our Application Platform team, you will work on building and optimizing foundational infrastructure for common use cases such as running experiments and engaging users.

Key Responsibilities
  • Create abstractions for product engineering teams to reduce friction and enable shipping new products faster.
  • Build and optimize foundational infrastructure for common use cases.
  • Evangelize best practices throughout the engineering team to keep code quality high.

We'd love to hear from you if you have 6+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and online services. You should also have strong technical communication skills and demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships with engineering and technical leaders.



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