# Manager, Software Engineering - External Platform

**Company**: Figma
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $258,000-$376,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Figma is growing its team of creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.

External Platform builds and operates mission-critical platforms that power how customers build on top of and with Figma.

As an Engineering Manager on External Platform, you'll lead a team of senior engineers working at the intersection of engineering, operations, and platform strategy.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma's AI products

- Partner with customers, engineering, and product leaders to define the team's technical strategy and manage day-to-day project execution

- Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team

- Engage deeply with technical details and decisions to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency

- Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices

Requirements:

- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, fast-moving teams, ideally in the AI platform space

- 8+ years of total engineering experience, ideally reaching a staff engineering level as an individual contributor

- Experience managing platform teams with a focus on reliability and extensibility

- A proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced engineering leads

- Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow

Nice to Have:

- Experience with MCP Infrastructure and integrations

- Experience with LLM, AI gateways

- A background in adjacent infrastructure domains

Benefits:

- Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage

- Retirement benefits with company contributions

- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support

- Mental health and wellness benefits

- Paid time off

- Company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts

Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000-$376,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- engineering management
- AI platform
- platform teams
- reliability
- extensibility
- team building

### Nice to have
- MCP Infrastructure
- LLM
- AI gateways
- infrastructure domains

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