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Company

Figma · 7 hours ago

Software Engineer - Distributed Storage

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$149K/yr - $350K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership on the long term vision for OLTP/Streaming/Caching at Figma.

Design and build novel solutions for scaling our distributed storage systems.

Collaborate with the Infrastructure org to improve the reliability of our underlying systems.

Collaborate with product teams to offer simple, maintainable APIs.

Provide Figma engineering with new primitives to operate online data at scale.

Unlock new revenue by building technical solutions for business problems.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsInfrastructure ComponentsAPIsPostgresTechnical LeadershipMySqlCockroachDBVitessGolangRustTechnical Communication

Required

6+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale.

Experience building and scaling distributed systems as an individual contributor and/or team lead.

Experience building and operating core, 'critical path' production services.

Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions.

Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments.

Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers.

Excellent technical communication skills.

Preferred

An advanced degree in Computer Science.

Experience scaling stateful distributed systems.

Experience with operating common database systems in production (e.g., Postgres, MySql).

Experience operating scalable database technologies in production (e.g., CockroachDB, Vitess).

Experience with high performance server side languages (e.g., Golang, Rust).

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

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Figma is a design platform that develops web applications for interface design with offline features.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

https://www.figma.com

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