engineering
Posted Jun 3Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform that powers them
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, spanning sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and org-wide agentic workflows
- Hire and scale the team - establishing team culture, execution cadence, and operational processes from the ground up
- Drive the reliability, observability, and scalability of our cloud agent platform, ensuring it meets production-grade standards as adoption grows across the engineering organization
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools, models, and agent frameworks, making strategic bets on which capabilities to build versus buy
- Establish evaluation frameworks to measure the quality, cost, and impact of AI-generated code and agentic workflows across the organization
- Coach and mentor engineers through career development, performance feedback, and technical leadership, fostering a culture of ownership, speed, and high-quality execution We'd love to hear from you if you have: 3+ years of
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.
- Figma's AI Tools team builds the AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling that make every engineer at the company more productive.
- From agentic CI auto-fixing and AI-assisted code review to background cloud agents that turn a Slack message into a pull request, this team owns the systems that are transforming how Figma builds software.
- Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevEx teams to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for AI-assisted developer workflows and drive adoption
- experience managing infrastructure, platform, or developer
- Strong software engineering background, with Staff-level or above technical depth before moving into management with deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and the operational challenges of running production infrastructure at scale
- Demonstrated fluency with AI/ML systems, LLM-based workflows, or agent architectures - as a builder, not just a consumer - with the ability to reason about tradeoffs in nondeterministic systems •
- Ability to set technical direction, drive cross-functional alignment, and make sound architectural decisions while balancing speed of execution with long-term sustainability While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Direct
- experience building AI developer tooling, agent platforms, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Familiarity with agent frameworks such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar background agent systems, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations •
- Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, n8n, or Tines for multi-stage automation
- Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-generated outputs At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go.
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
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: $258,000 — $376,000 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 team operates across a three-layer platform stack—sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration—while shipping and maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows that compound across hundreds of engineers.
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- experience engineering teams, with a track record of scaling teams and delivering high-performing systems
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- experience platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments •
- We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills.
- experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
- qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.