Software Engineer - Client Testing and Observability

Company: Figma
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 16, 2025

Job Description:

Software Engineer - Client Testing and ObservabilityFigma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products - from start to finish. Whether it's consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone-come make with us!This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.What you'll do at Figma:

• Enable Figma engineers to ship high quality and performant code by building testing and benchmarking frameworks that catch issues before they reach our users.
• Develop observability tooling to detect and root cause issues in production quickly.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across the company to define goals around automated testing, performance benchmarking (CPU, memory, FPS), and operational health.
• Provide engineering teams visibility into their quality and performance to maintain/improve Figma's high bar for product excellence.
• Be a part of a unique engineering culture that fosters learning, belonging, and impact.We'd love to hear from you if you have:
  • At least 2+ years experience building testing and observability frameworks for web frontend, that are used by large engineering teams.
  • Experience working on client-side frontend technologies like React, and testing frameworks like Jasmine/Jest/Playwright, observability systems for error reporting, real-time telemetry and analytics logging, working with build tools like Bazel and CI/CD frameworks, working with cloud services like AWS, code coverage and performance/runtime profiling tools.
  • Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines.
  • Demonstrated unwavering commitment for improving product quality by building tools and frameworks for engineers.While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have:
    • 2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview.
    • Have a track record for being able to diagnose problems within complex systems.
    • A passion for and experience with driving foundational initiatives that improve product quality and internal velocity.At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.Pay Transparency DisclosureIf based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):$149,000 - $350,000 USDAt Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the applicable candidate section of Figma's Privacy Policy.Apply for this job* indicates a required field
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