Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools
$258k - $376k • Remote • San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Posted 2mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Figma's AI Tools team is building AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling to enhance engineer productivity. This team owns systems that transform software development, including agentic CI auto-fixing, AI-assisted code review, and cloud agents that automate tasks like turning Slack messages into pull requests. The team operates across a three-layer platform stack: sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration, while maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and cloud agent platform.
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, covering sandbox runtime, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and agentic workflows.
- Hire and scale the team, establishing culture, execution cadence, and operational processes.
- Drive reliability, observability, and scalability of the cloud agent platform to meet production standards.
- Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevEx teams to identify high-leverage AI workflow opportunities.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools, models, and agent frameworks.
- Establish evaluation frameworks to measure the quality, cost, and impact of AI-generated code and agentic workflows.
- Coach and mentor engineers on career development, performance, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams.
- Strong software engineering background with Staff-level or above technical depth.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and production infrastructure operations.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI/ML systems, LLM-based workflows, or agent architectures.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to set technical direction, drive cross-functional alignment, and make sound architectural decisions.
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Holidays
- Other leave benefits
- Paid flexible PTO (for exempt employees)
- Flexible paid sick leave