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About the Role
External Platform builds and operates mission critical platforms that power how customers build on top of and with Figma. The team owns our MCP, Rest API and Gateway integrations powering millions of users as they work across design and code. As an Engineering Manager on External Platform, you’ll lead a team of senior engineers working at the intersection of engineering, operations, and platform strategy. You’ll partner closely with some of our largest customers, Legal, and Program Management to translate shared goals into durable, scalable outcomes. While this team works on our external platforms, the focus is on reliability and extensibility. You will operate the platform supporting our fastest growing products and provide APIs and frameworks that both internal teams and customers built on top of. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating in ambiguous, cross-functional spaces, amplifying the impact of strong ICs, and driving outcomes through platform leverage.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products
- Partner with customers, engineering and product leaders from across Figma to define the team’s technical strategy and manage the day-to-day project execution
- Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team
- Engage deeply with technical details and decisions to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency
- Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, fast-moving teams, ideally in the AI platform space
- 8+ years of total engineering experience, ideally reaching a staff engineering level as an individual contributor
- Experience managing platform teams with a focus on reliability and extensibility
- A proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced engineering leads
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow
- Experience with MCP Infrastructure and integrations
- Experience with LLM, AI gateways
- A background in adjacent infrastructure domains
- Must attend in person onboarding
- Must keep cameras on during video interviews
Skills
- AI platform
- MCP Infrastructure
- LLM
- AI gateways
- platform strategy
- reliability
- extensibility
Location
- NYC hub
- Remote on the East Coast of the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $258,000—$376,000 USD
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
- Other leave benefits
- Paid flexible PTO
- Company recharge days
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
- Lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation (for most sales roles)
- Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles)
About the Company
- Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- 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.
- These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
- Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: Holding interviews in an accessible location, Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing, Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers, Changing the mode or format of interviews.