Manager, Software Engineering Observability

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre 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 youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

Figmas Observability engineering team builds and operates the systems that give us deep visibility into the health performance and efficiency of our platform. From metrics logs and traces to cost attribution and budgeting this team ensures that engineers across Figma can detect issues quickly understand system behavior at scale and make informed decisions about reliability and spend. The team owns and evolves our core observability stackincluding platforms like Datadog shared instrumentation libraries and the agents and operators that power telemetry collectionwhile continuously raising the bar on signal quality and operational clarity.

As the Engineering Manager for Observability you will lead a team of five engineers responsible for shaping the future of visibility and efficiency at Figma. Youll define the strategy for instrumentation standards and cost transparency drive initiatives to optimize observability footprint and spend and explore innovative AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection and operational automation. This role is well-suited for a leader with strong distributed systems experience who is motivated by platform leverage cross-functional impact and building systems that enable every engineering team to operate with confidence and precision.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What youll do at Figma:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for the reliability scalability and evolution of Figmas observability and cost engineering platforms
• Own and operate Figmas core observability stack including vendor platforms such as Datadog ensuring high availability strong data quality and effective signal-to-noise across metrics logs and traces
• Define and drive the technical strategy for instrumentation standards observability libraries agents and operators used to monitor internal and external facing services
• Explore and implement innovative AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection root cause analysis signal correlation and operational automation
• Establish clear frameworks for cost attribution budgeting forecasting and alerting across infrastructure and observability spend enabling teams to make informed tradeoffs
• Partner with infrastructure product engineering finance and security teams to improve visibility into system health and cost efficiency at scale
• Lead initiatives to optimize observability footprint and spend balancing depth of insight with performance and cost considerations
• Coach and mentor engineers through career development performance feedback and technical leadership fostering a culture of ownership collaboration and high quality execution

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