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Search technology underpins several recent Figma product innovations, such as visual search in the new Figma AI bundle . The Search Platform team aims to accelerate new search feature development by providing a flexible, configurable indexing solution allowing any team to index any content. The team will abstract away search cluster resource creation and management complexity, providing infrastructure-level SLO guarantees and out-of-the-box observability. The team will partner with Figma’s Search Experience team, and various other product teams across Figma, to leverage the search platform to build optimal search experiences.
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
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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.
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$240,000 - $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 statusor any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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Search technology underpins several recent Figma product innovations, such as visual search in the new Figma AI bundle . The Search Platform team aims to accelerate new search feature development by providing a flexible, configurable indexing solution allowing any team to index any content. The team will abstract away search cluster resource creation and management complexity, providing infrastructure-level SLO guarantees and out-of-the-box observability. The team will partner with Figma’s Search Experience team, and various other product teams across Figma, to leverage the search platform to build optimal search experiences.
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
- Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers who design and build scalable services to power Figma’s search platform and infrastructure.
- Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale Search platform capabilities
- Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects.
- Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization.
- Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community
- Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma.
- 2 years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
- 5 years experience building and scaling distributed systems as a leader and/or individual contributor
- Strong expertise in OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or other search engine technologies, with experience managing such search clusters at scale to serve production-facing traffic.
- Experience with designing and managing scalable, high-performance, and reliable search infrastructure. Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
- Skills in optimizing search performance and reducing time-to-index latency. Familiarity with indexing and caching strategies, load balancing, and other performance-enhancing techniques.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers.
- A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions
- Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools
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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)
$240,000 - $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 statusor any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
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