About the Role
Title: Technical Program Manager – Infrastructure
Location: San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
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!
The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma’s most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team. The TPM provides oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org to succeed. This is a new role focused on enabling Figma’s infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects. These large-scale efforts will involve collaboration across numerous backend, infrastructure, and security teams & cross-functional stakeholders, prioritization, decision-making, tracking execution & driving operational excellence. We’re looking for someone that can work in a TPM greenspace environment and is passionate about people, technology, and program management. Progress over process is our mantra.
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
- Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma’s infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact.
- Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, and cloud-native performance improvements.
- Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment.
- Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering.
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies.
- Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability.
We’d Love to Hear from You If You Have:
- 8+ years of experience as Infra TPM or related Engineering work, with a strong background in Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, or SRE.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar).
- Experience driving large-scale infrastructure initiatives (including encryption and external key management) or migrations of high availability business critical services.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and establish program management best practices in a fast-moving organization.
- Strong internal and external stakeholder management, and the ability to translate technical challenges into executive-level updates.
- Experience coordinating engineering teams, driving cross-functional programs, and tracking performance bottlenecks to optimize infrastructure SLAs.
- Deep technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven architectures (Kafka).
While It’s Not Required, It’s an Added Plus If You Also Have:
- A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions within an engineering organization.
- Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs.
- Infrastructure Incident Management and Analysis.
About the Role
Title: Technical Program Manager – Infrastructure
Location: San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
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!
The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma’s most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team. The TPM provides oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org to succeed. This is a new role focused on enabling Figma’s infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects. These large-scale efforts will involve collaboration across numerous backend, infrastructure, and security teams & cross-functional stakeholders, prioritization, decision-making, tracking execution & driving operational excellence. We’re looking for someone that can work in a TPM greenspace environment and is passionate about people, technology, and program management. Progress over process is our mantra.
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
Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma’s infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact.
Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, and cloud-native performance improvements.
Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment.
Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering.
Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies.
Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies.
Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability.
We’d Love to Hear from You If You Have:
8+ years of experience as Infra TPM or related Engineering work, with a strong background in Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, or SRE.
Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar).
Experience driving large-scale infrastructure initiatives (including encryption and external key management) or migrations of high availability business critical services.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and establish program management best practices in a fast-moving organization.
Strong internal and external stakeholder management, and the ability to translate technical challenges into executive-level updates.
Experience coordinating engineering teams, driving cross-functional programs, and tracking performance bottlenecks to optimize infrastructure SLAs.
Deep technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven architectures (Kafka).
While It’s Not Required, It’s an Added Plus If You Also Have:
A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions within an engineering organization.
Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs.
Infrastructure Incident Management and Analysis.