Figma · 12 hours ago
Software Engineer - Search Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$149K/yr - $350K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient infrastructure for Figma’s search platform, focusing on centralizing and standardizing solutions.
Improve the internal developer experience of working with search by developing low-code interfaces that allow product teams to easily index and manage data for new and existing search use-cases.
Collaborate with the Search Quality, Search Experience, and other product teams to ensure seamless integration of search infrastructure with product-side logic.
Contribute to the development of a new unified search indexing and backfilling pipeline.
Enhance observability and monitoring of search clusters to provide infrastructure-level SLO guarantees.
Participate in setting the technical direction and strategy for search technologies, aligning with the long-term vision of the Search Platform team.
Qualification
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Required
5+ years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, both search clusters and also services around them.
Strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr.
Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
Proficiency in optimizing search performance and reducing latency.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of completing projects that required cross-functional partnership.
The ability to break down complex topics to successfully communicate with various audiences.
Preferred
Experience with novel, custom solutions to complex engineering challenges.
Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Go, or Rust.
Experience in evangelizing innovative infrastructure and developer tools.
Benefits
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
Cell phone reimbursement
Company
Figma
Figma is a design platform that develops web applications for interface design with offline features.
1,001-5,000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$748.62MKey Investors
Durable Capital PartnersAndreessen HorowitzSequoia Capital
2024-07-17Secondary Market· undefined
2024-05-29Series F· $415.75M
2021-06-24Series E· $200M
Leadership Team
Dylan Field
CEO & Co-Founder
Evan Wallace
Co-Founder
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