✨ About The Role
- Design, build, and operate scalable database systems for Figma's applications
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes to support scalable database products
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve developer velocity
- Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Opportunity to work on a novel approach to Postgres sharding and ramp up investments in a Streaming platform built on Kafka and a Caching platform on Redis
âš¡ Requirements
- Experienced engineer with a minimum of 5 years building infrastructure components at scale
- Strong background in distributed systems and experience with Postgres, MySQL, Redis, or other database technologies
- Proven track record of successfully shipping high-quality products in high-growth environments
- Ability to mentor both junior and senior engineers and communicate effectively across teams
- Excited about scaling stateful distributed systems and building simple abstractions for database systems