Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

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.

• 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, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)

• Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery

• 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

• Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications for senior leadership and external stakeholders

• 8+ years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering), with hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)

• Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details

• Track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs such as migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, and reliability initiatives for high-availability, business-critical services

• Strong cross-functional program management skills, including coordinating multi-team engineering orgs, tracking performance bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure SLAs, and establishing PM best practices in ambiguous environments

• Proven stakeholder management, with experience engaging external partners (cloud providers, enterprise customers) and translating complex technical challenges into clear executive-level communications

• A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions or program management practices within an engineering organization

• Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs (SOC 2, FedRAMP, encryption key management)

• Infrastructure incident management and analysis experience

• Experience working with external enterprise partners on technical programs (e.g., Apple, AWS, Google)

• Background in software engineering or site reliability engineering (SWE/SRE-to-TPM career path)

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending.

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