Manager, Software Engineering (Livegraph)
March 29
🏢 In-office - Manhattan
Description
• Manage, support and grow a diverse team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s infrastructure. • Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Livegraph • Partner 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. • Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community • Give back technical innovation into the software engineering community, through talks at conferences, open source contributions, blog posts, and external evangelism
Requirements
• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team • 5+ years experience building and scaling distributed systems as a leader and/or individual contributor • Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients • Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users • Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers • A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions • Hands-on experience building developer-facing query systems, implementing technologies such as GraphQL • Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools • Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company’s distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach • A love for new programming languages and syntaxes
Benefits
• Health, dental & vision benefits • Retirement with company contribution • Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support • Mental health & wellness benefits • Generous PTO • Company recharge days • Learning & development stipend • Work from home stipend • Cell phone reimbursement • Equity to employees • Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
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