Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is hiring a Software Engineer for its Application Platform team within Infrastructure. The role builds and evolves shared backend foundations, Ruby frameworks, and tools that help engineers deliver product work quickly, safely, and reliably.

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
• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Equity
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits with company contributions
• Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Holidays and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
• Employer-provided paid flexible PTO for exempt employees, in addition to flexible paid sick leave; PTO is subject to manager approval
• Company recharge days
• Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
• Lifestyle spending accounts
• Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
• Full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States

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