Software Engineer - Search Platform

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

The Search Platform team builds the infrastructure powering Figma’s search capabilities, including innovations like visual search in the Figma AI bundle. As an engineer on the team, you'll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects like a low-code indexing solution that empowers various product teams to index new data sets and iterate rapidly. Also, our new AI-powered re-ranking architecture, which will blend lexical and vector search results into the most relevant results. You'll scale search infrastructure for Figma’s ever growing data sets of file data and design systems components, while adding support for new content types like AI content recommendations. While driving these new search capabilities, we’ll also be constantly improving the overall search experiences across Figma.

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:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient infrastructure for Figma’s search platform, focusing on centralizing and standardizing solutions.
• Improve the internal developer experience of working with search by developing low-code interfaces that allow product teams to easily index and manage data for new and existing search use-cases.
• Collaborate with the Search Quality, Search Experience, and other product teams to ensure seamless integration of search infrastructure with product-side logic.
• Contribute to the development of a new unified search indexing and backfilling pipeline.
• Enhance observability and monitoring of search clusters to provide infrastructure-level SLO guarantees.
• Participate in setting the technical direction and strategy for search technologies, aligning with the long-term vision of the Search Platform team.
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5 years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, both search clusters and also services around them.
• Strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr.
• Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
• Proficiency in optimizing search performance and reducing latency.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of completing projects that required cross-functional partnership.
• The ability to break down complex topics to successfully communicate with various audiences..
  
  

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience with novel, custom solutions to complex engineering challenges.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Go, or Rust.
• Experience in evangelizing innovative infrastructure and developer tools.
  
  

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past 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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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 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. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. 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. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$149,000—$350,000 USD

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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• Holding interviews in an accessible location
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• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
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