Figma
Technology
Manager,SoftwareEngineering-DevExAITools
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“Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools at Figma. Skills: AI Developer Experience, Cloud agent platform, Workflow orchestration, Agentic workflows. Lead engineering team. Grow engineering team”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Reason about tradeoffs
Attend in person onboarding
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years managing infrastructure teams, 3+ years managing platform teams, 3+ years managing DevEx teams, Track record scaling teams, Track record delivering systems software, Staff-level technical depth, Deep understanding distributed systems, Deep understanding platform architecture, Deep understanding production infrastructure, Fluency with AI/ML systems, Fluency with LLM-based workflows, Fluency with agent architectures, Reason about tradeoffs nondeterministic systems, Experience hiring engineering teams, Experience onboarding engineering teams, Experience growing engineering teams, Ability set technical direction, Ability drive cross-functional alignment, Ability make sound architectural decisions, Balance speed execution, Balance long-term sustainability
Nice to Have
Direct experience building AI developer tooling, Direct experience building agent platforms, Direct experience building AI-assisted engineering workflows, Familiarity agent frameworks, Familiarity MCP integrations, Experience with workflow orchestration platforms, Experience building evaluation frameworks, Experience building quality frameworks
What You'll Do.
Lead engineering team
Grow engineering team
Build AI developer workflows
Operate AI developer workflows
Build cloud agent platform
Operate cloud agent platform
Own technical strategy
Establish team culture
Establish execution cadence
Establish operational processes
Partner with product engineering
Partner with security
Partner with infrastructure
Partner with DevEx teams
Identify leverage opportunities
Evaluate emerging AI tools
Integrate emerging AI tools
Evaluate agent frameworks
Integrate agent frameworks
Establish evaluation frameworks
Measure quality AI code
Measure impact AI code
Measure quality agentic workflows
Measure cost agentic workflows
Measure impact agentic workflows
Provide career development
Provide performance feedback
Foster culture ownership
Foster culture high-quality execution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product engineering teams; Security teams; Infrastructure teams; DevEx teams
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
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! Figma's AI Tools team builds the AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling that make every engineer at the company more productive. From agentic CI auto-fixing and AI-assisted code review to background cloud agents that turn a Slack message into a pull request, this team owns the systems that are transforming how Figma builds software. The team operates across a three-layer platform stack—sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration—while shipping and maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows that compound across hundreds of engineers. 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 and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform that powers them Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, spanning sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and org-wide agentic workflows Hire and scale the team - establishing team culture, execution cadence, and operational processes from the ground up Drive the reliability, observability, and scalability of our cloud agent platform, ensuring it meets production-grade standards as adoption grows across the engineering organization Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevEx teams to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for AI-assisted developer workflows and drive adoption
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