Lead the engineering team owning Figma's sharded Postgres storage layer and database platform

Figma is hiring an Engineering Manager for its Databases team, which owns the foundational data layer behind every Figma file, component, comment, and collaboration session — sharded Postgres clusters, migration tooling, provisioning, and higher-level data products like caching and streaming. The manager will lead engineers, own reliability/on-call culture for the data tier, set technical direction, and champion AI-assisted tooling for database operations. Requires 4+ years managing infrastructure/platform/backend teams and proven technical depth in distributed, stateful systems; base salary $258K-$376K in SF/NYC hubs.

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What this interview tests

Technical depth in distributed, stateful systems (sharded Postgres, replication, migrations)
Building on-call culture, incident response, and postmortem practices for critical infrastructure
People management: coaching, promotions, difficult performance conversations
Prioritizing platform reliability vs. competing product-team demands
Bringing AI/LLM-assisted tooling into database operations safely