✨ About The Role
- The role involves hiring, managing, and developing a team of engineers focused on designing and building scalable services for Figma's search platform.
- The candidate will be responsible for building and executing a long-term roadmap to evolve and scale search platform capabilities.
- They will partner with engineering leadership to set strategies, priorities, and missions for teams and projects.
- Establishing trust and accountability within and across teams is a key responsibility of this role.
- The position offers opportunities for career growth within an engaged and creative engineering community.
⚡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, either as a leader or individual contributor.
- They should possess strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr, with experience managing search clusters at scale.
- A successful candidate will have demonstrated leadership skills in building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
- They should be skilled in optimizing search performance and have knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.
- The candidate should be excited about fostering an inclusive and diverse team culture and actively participate in related initiatives.