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Software Engineer - Application Platform

San Francisco, CA • On-site, Remote

Figma
Specialized Design Services • 1 - 5K employees
Learn more about Figmaexternal

Full-time

Posted 23 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access

  • Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality

  • Partner with product engineers and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities

Job description

Application Platform is part of Product Platform within Figma's Infrastructure organization. We build shared foundations that help engineers ship backend product work quickly, safely, and reliably. The team owns a large Ruby application that powers Figma's REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. Our systems sit on critical production paths and shape the day-to-day experience of backend engineers across Figma.

We're looking for an experienced backend engineer with meaningful production Ruby experience who enjoys building for other engineers. You don't need to be a Ruby language specialist. You should be comfortable making informed tradeoffs in a substantial shared codebase and turning recurring problems into durable systems, tools, and paved paths that improve engineering velocity across the company.

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 and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access
  • Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality
  • Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety
  • Make backend development faster by improving hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed
  • Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of Figma's asynchronous job platform
  • Partner with product engineers-your customers-and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities
  • Establish pragmatic engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
  • Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby
  • Build, maintain, and evolve large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases that support multiple engineering teams
  • Design reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations
  • Improve complex, established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling
  • Create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams
While not required, it's an added plus if you also have:
  • Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery
  • Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform
  • Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations
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.

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