Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering
Lead a team of production engineers at Figma to enhance product reliability and streamline engineering processes.
Posted by employer 7 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 hour ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Coach and develop production engineers
- Set priorities and guide delivery for the team
- Guide improvements to observability and incident response
- Partner with engineers on technical direction
- Turn lessons from incidents into reusable tools
Must have
- Experience managing engineering teams
- Experience building and operating complex software systems
- Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams
Nice to have
- Experience building shared reliability platforms
- Familiarity with traffic management
- Experience improving incident response processes
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Engineering Manager for Production Engineering at Figma, the individual will oversee a team focused on enhancing product reliability and operational efficiency. This position requires a strong background in managing engineering teams and a deep understanding of complex software systems, as well as the ability to navigate cross-functional initiatives. Ideal candidates will have experience in fostering technical leadership and guiding teams through strategic decision-making. Figma emphasizes a culture of growth and collaboration, making it suitable for those who thrive in dynamic environments.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 20, 2026. Last confirmed on Figma's careers page October 20, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$171,120).
- Starts above 83% of 314 comparable lead management roles in United States we track (median $190,000 across 96 companies).
- Observability appears in 1% of 598 comparable lead management roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering role remote?
- It's hybrid — Figma expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Figma lists $258,000–$376,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Figma is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Container Orchestration, Incident Response, Observability, Service Discovery, production tooling, reliability platforms.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Figma targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering role at Figma.
From the original posting
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. 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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
Production Engineering embeds with product and platform teams across Figma to help them deliver reliable products faster. Our work spans the stack, from browser performance to backend services and infrastructure. We build tools and practices that reduce operational complexity, clarify important signals, and leave teams confident operating their systems. We value curiosity, thoughtful engineering, and practical progress on problems that matter to the business.
As Engineering Manager, you’ll own the team’s strategy, priorities, delivery, and people development. You’ll work with product and platform leaders to decide where the team can make the biggest difference, balancing immediate production needs with lasting improvements. You’ll use your technical judgment to challenge assumptions and assess risk while giving engineers room to lead.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Coach and develop production engineers, including experienced technical leaders, through direct feedback and opportunities to shape technical strategy and lead work across teams
- Set priorities and guide delivery for the team’s embedded work with Figma’s product and platform organizations. Align partners on outcomes, responsibilities, and tradeoffs, and resolve competing demands
- Guide improvements to observability, incident response, and production tooling that reduce recurring toil, surface actionable signals, and make services easier for product teams to understand and operate
- Partner with engineers on long-term technical direction, design, and production reviews, supporting their ownership of technical decisions and holding the team accountable for delivery
- Anticipate reliability and scaling challenges alongside partner-team leaders, and prioritize improvements that support upcoming product goals
- Turn lessons from work with product teams and production incidents into reusable tools and practices that strengthen partner teams’ ownership and make on-call more sustainable
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience managing engineering teams and developing senior engineers, helping them grow their technical judgment, leadership, and impact
- Experience building and operating complex software systems at scale, with the technical judgment to guide decisions across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems
- Experience leading complex initiatives across engineering teams and cross-functional partners, earning trust beyond your reporting line, resolving competing priorities, and delivering shared business goals
- Sound judgment about reliability, security, and sustainable operations, with clear communication and respect for engineers’ technical ownership
- Experience building shared reliability platforms, observability or distributed tracing systems, or tooling that reduces toil across multiple engineering teams
- Familiarity with traffic management, service discovery or service meshes, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, or capacity and performance engineering
- Experience improving incident response processes and reducing on-call burden
Pay Transparency Disclosure
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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