infrastructure
Posted 2 weeks agoTechnical Program Manager, Infrastructure
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma's infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact
- Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
- Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering
- Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies
- Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability
- Track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs such as migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, and reliability initiatives for high-availability, business-critical services
- A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions or program management practices within an engineering organization •
Requirements
- Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- This is a role focused on enabling Figma's infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects.
- experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details
- Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs (SOC 2, FedRAMP, encryption key management)
- Experience working with external enterprise partners on technical programs (e.g., Apple, AWS, Google)
- Background in software engineering or site reliability engineering (SWE/SRE-to-TPM career path) At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go.
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Experience
- 8+ years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering), with hands-on
Benefits
- If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
- Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual
- For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.
- Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales
- Figma’s compensation and
- Annual Base Salary Range: $185,000 — $317,000 USD
Contact
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com .
Additional details
- Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
- The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma's most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team.
- The TPM provides oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org to succeed.
- These large-scale efforts will involve collaboration across numerous backend, infrastructure, and security teams and cross-functional stakeholders, prioritization, decision-making, tracking execution, and driving operational excellence.
- This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies
- Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications for senior leadership and external stakeholders We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Strong cross-functional program management skills, including coordinating multi-team engineering orgs, tracking performance bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure SLAs, and establishing PM best practices in ambiguous environments