infrastructure
Posted 3 hours 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.