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Figma

Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Figma
remote senior full-time $185,000-$376,000 USD San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

We're growing our team of engineers and are looking for a technical leader to help shape our build and CI infrastructure. As a member of the Build Systems team, you'll drive technical roadmap and strategy, partner with cross-functional teams, and lead complex initiatives reducing build/test times and improving CI reliability.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Driving technical roadmap and strategy for the Build Systems team
  • Partnering with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify developer pain points and design elegant, scalable solutions
  • Leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives reducing build/test times and improving CI reliability
  • Designing, building, and maintaining modern developer tools including scalable build systems, distributed CI platforms, and test frameworks
  • Architecting and implementing large-scale infrastructure on AWS that powers our entire build pipeline to ensure reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
  • Mentoring and upleveling the team through technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural leadership

We're looking for someone with 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years on Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Experience teams. You should have deep expertise in build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle) and operating large-scale monorepos. Experience optimizing CI/CD, building developer tooling at scale, and designing reliable, high-performance distributed systems is also required.

Preferred skills include experience migrating large codebases to modern build systems (especially Bazel), building test frameworks and improving test infrastructure, and having excellent problem-solving skills.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/5790627004