Manager, Software Engineering - Observability

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Lead and grow a team responsible for reliability, scalability, and evolution of observability and cost engineering platforms
• Own and operate core observability stack including Datadog, ensuring high availability and data quality
• Define technical strategy for instrumentation standards, libraries, agents, and operators
• Implement AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and automation
• Establish frameworks for cost attribution, budgeting, forecasting, and alerting
• Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, finance, and security teams
• Optimize observability footprint and spend
• Coach and mentor engineers on career development and technical leadership

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 4+ years leading infrastructure, observability, or platform engineering teams
• Deep experience with observability platforms (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, instrumentation, SLOs, and incident response
• Experience driving cost transparency and accountability in cloud environments
• Ability to set technical direction and drive cross-functional alignment

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with company-wide observability standards and integrations
• Background in cost optimization and vendor negotiations
• AI/ML for anomaly detection or automation
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry across languages
• Scaling and mentoring high-performing teams