Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Figma in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
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- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that support product innovation and user collaboration at scale.
- Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration.
- Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs.
- Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
- Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the organization.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
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