Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform
$258,000–$376,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Engineering Manager of Figma's Databases team, leading engineers responsible for core database infrastructure including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management and migrations tooling, provisioning, and reliability of the data tier. Partners with product engineering to prioritize work, drives incident response and postmortems, shapes the roadmap for database infrastructure, recruits and grows infrastructure engineers, and champions AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations. Role available full-time from US hubs or remote within the United States.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
- Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems
- Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals
- Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems
- Experience developing engineers' careers — coaching through promotions, navigating difficult performance conversations, and building teams that people want to join
- Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones
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