# Manager, Software Engineering - Observability

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $250k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Systems, Instrumentation, Slo Design, Incident Response, Cost Attribution, Ai Anomaly Detection, Kubernetes, Cloud Cost Management
**Posted:** 2026-02-27

> Lead a team building Figma's observability platform with Datadog and OpenTelemetry, driving instrumentation strategy, cost optimization, and AI-powered anomaly detection. Requires 4+ years managing infrastructure teams and deep distributed systems expertise.

## Job Description

## 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

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