Software Engineer, Traffic

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. The Software Engineer, Traffic role focuses on designing and building scalable distributed systems and services to support Figma's infrastructure and enhance the performance of its tools.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate scalable distributed systems and services that power Figma's innovative tools for design and collaboration
• Develop and secure our internal and edge network running on AWS
• Help design and deploy an internal service mesh network which can support Figma's growing portfolio of services and features
• Develop intelligent detection and auto-scaling countermeasures for DDoS threats
• Debug and resolve production issues across services and multiple layers of the stack, reducing mean time to resolution for critical incidents

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience building infrastructure components and services at scale in a cloud environment
• Experience with programming languages like TypeScript or Go
• Experience building and scaling distributed and traffic systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
• Experience communicating cross-functionally and working with teams handling network and traffic systems at scale for millions of customers
• Deep knowledge of DDoS attack mechanisms and mitigation solutions on AWS or Cloud environments
• Significant background securing network infrastructure
• Traffic analytics using VPC Flow Logs, Lambda, and other data sources
• Experience with TCP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL protocols
• Experience with network proxies like Envoy and Haproxy