Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
Lead cross-functional infrastructure programs at Figma, coordinating reliability, storage, distributed systems, and compliance initiatives across engineering, security, and legal teams. Requires 8+ years of infrastructure TPM experience with deep technical expertise in cloud-native systems.
About the job
What you'll do at Figma
- Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma's infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact
- Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
- Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery
- Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies
- Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies
- Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability
- Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications for senior leadership and external stakeholders
Requirements
- 8+ years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering), with hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details
- Track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs such as migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, and reliability initiatives for high-availability, business-critical services
- Strong cross-functional program management skills, including coordinating multi-team engineering orgs, tracking performance bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure SLAs, and establishing PM best practices in ambiguous environments
- Proven stakeholder management, with experience engaging external partners (cloud providers, enterprise customers) and translating complex technical challenges into clear executive-level communications
Nice-to-haves
- A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions or program management practices within an engineering organization
- Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs (SOC 2, FedRAMP, encryption key management)
- Infrastructure incident management and analysis experience
- Experience working with external enterprise partners on technical programs (e.g., Apple, AWS, Google)
- Background in software engineering or site reliability engineering (SWE/SRE-to-TPM career path)
Skills
AWS, GCP, S3, Rds, DynamoDB, Redis, Opensearch, Kafka, FedRAMP, SOC 2
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