Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

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 •

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.