Software Engineer - LiveGraph

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

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!Livegraph is a core Figma technology driving our realtime web and mobile experiences. Similar to GraphQL, it sends data from relational databases, caches, and backend services to clients on any device. But innovating on GraphQL, it updates the user experiences it powers automatically - making every Figma experience feel alive and multi-player.We are looking for engineers who are excited about scaling stateful distributed systems, and who have an eye for building expressive APIs for querying dynamic source-of-truth data. A successful engineer will help define how realtime product experiences are built across Figma's product suite.This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate Livegraph, a realtime query system, as well as Livegraph subsystems.
• Drive down tech debt and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve reliability, efficiency, and developer velocity.
• Help debug and fix production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience as a team lead, coordinating a group of engineers to build and scale complex distributed systems in a high growth environment.
  • Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients.
  • Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users.
  • Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers.
  • Excellent technical communication skills, working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions.Preferred Qualifications:
    • A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions.
    • Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure, and developer tools.
    • Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company's distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach.
    • A love for new programming languages and syntaxes.A little about our tech stack:
      • Livegraph: Go (and legacy Typescript)
      • Around Figma's server-side: Typescript, React, Ruby, Rust
      • Built on: AWS, EKSAt 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 anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.Pay Transparency DisclosureIf 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.Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):$228,000 - $350,000 USDAt 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 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.
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Keywords: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc, San Francisco , Software Engineer - LiveGraph, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California