# Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $258k – $376k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, MySQL, Distributed Systems, Database Sharding, Schema Migrations, Incident Response, On-Call Culture, Reliability Engineering, Ai-Assisted Tooling, Team Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Lead the Databases team responsible for Figma's sharded Postgres infrastructure, reliability, and operational excellence. Manage engineers, set technical direction, and partner with product teams to scale critical stateful systems.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do at Figma:

- Lead and develop engineers responsible for Figma's core database infrastructure, including sharded Postgres clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning
- Own the reliability and operational excellence of Figma's data tier — drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system resilience
- Set technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability investments with platform capabilities that accelerate product engineering teams
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands — this is a foundational platform team that every product team depends on
- Recruit, retain, and grow top infrastructure engineering talent — build a team culture where engineers do the best work of their careers
- Drive execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication of progress and risks to stakeholders
- Collaborate with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure on shared operational standards and cross-cutting initiatives
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations — from schema guidance to automated migration safety checks

## Requirements:

- 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams
- Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems, with a track record of earning credibility with senior engineers and making informed technical tradeoffs
- 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 — you've coached people through promotions, navigated difficult performance conversations, and built teams that people want to join
- Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones

## Nice-to-haves:

- Experience managing managers or leading multiple teams across related technical domains
- Experience defining org-wide technical vision and strategy across multiple work streams
- Hands-on experience operating relational databases at scale (Postgres or MySQL) — including sharding, replication, and migration strategies
- Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted developer tooling and how it can transform infrastructure operations
- Background in adjacent infrastructure domains (caching, streaming/event processing, observability) that complement the database layer
- Experience at a high-growth product company where infrastructure needed to evolve rapidly alongside the product

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