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Figma

Senior

Lead the team building Figma's AI-powered developer workflows and cloud agent platform

Figma is hiring an Engineering Manager for its AI Tools team, which builds the sandbox runtime, cloud agent platform, and workflow orchestration that power AI-assisted developer workflows (agentic CI, code review, background agents) across the engineering org. The role requires Staff-level technical depth before moving into management plus 3+ years managing infra/platform/DevEx teams. Based in SF, NYC, or remote in the US.

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What this interview tests

  • Cloud agent platform architecture & reliability
  • Evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code quality/cost/impact
  • Engineering management: hiring, team culture, execution cadence
  • Build vs. buy decisions on AI/agent frameworks
  • Distributed systems & platform architecture depth
  • Cross-functional partnership (product eng, security, infra, DevEx)

Common question themes

How would you architect a reliable, observable cloud agent platform at scale

Design an evaluation framework to measure AI-generated code quality and cost

Tell me about scaling a platform/infra team from 0 to 1

How do you decide what AI tooling to build in-house vs adopt (e.g. Temporal, Cursor)

Describe a hard architectural tradeoff you made balancing speed vs sustainability

How do you coach engineers through ambiguity in a fast-moving AI tooling space

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