Figma
Mid
Design and secure the edge network handling Figma's growing customer traffic
Interview for Figma's Server Platform Foundation team, building the next-generation edge and network layer that all other Figma infrastructure runs on. Covers distributed systems design on AWS, service mesh, and DDoS detection/mitigation at scale. Best suited to engineers with 4+ years building cloud infrastructure who can speak concretely about traffic systems serving millions of users.
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What this interview tests
- Distributed systems design on AWS
- Internal/edge network and service mesh architecture
- DDoS detection and auto-scaling mitigation
- Production debugging across stack layers
- Network protocols (TCP/HTTP/DNS/SSL) and proxies (Envoy/HAProxy)
Common question themes
Design a service mesh to support a growing set of internal services
How would you detect and auto-mitigate a DDoS attack against edge infrastructure
Describe a distributed traffic system you built or scaled as an IC or lead
Debugging a cross-layer production incident and reducing MTTR
Tradeoffs between TypeScript/Go for infrastructure services
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