Software Engineer - Livegraph

Livegraph is a core Figma technology driving our realtime web and mobile experiences. Similar to GraphQL, it sends data from relational databases, caches, and backend services to clients on any device. But innovating on GraphQL, it updates the user experiences it powers automatically – making every Figma experience feel alive and multi-player. Livegraph is written in Go (and legacy Typescript) on AWS, EKS. You will encounter Typescript, React, Ruby, Rust, WebAssembly, C++, ObjectiveC, Kotlin all around Figma's tech stack.

We are looking for engineers who are excited about scaling stateful distributed systems, and who have an eye for building expressive APIs for querying dynamic source-of-truth data. A successful engineer will help define how realtime product experiences are built across Figma’s product suite.

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:

• Design, build and operate Livegraph, a realtime query system, as well as Livegraph subsystems.

• Drive down tech debt and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to define simple interfaces that improve reliability, efficiency, and developer velocity.

• Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience building infrastructure components / services at scale.

• Experience safely evolving infrastructure that actively serves production traffic to heterogeneous clients

• Experience running an online service hosting at least 100,000 concurrent users

• Proven track record of successfully shipping and landing high-quality products in high growth environments.

• Mentorship experiences with both junior and senior engineers.

• Experience communicating and working across multiple teams and functions to deliver solutions.

• Excellent technical communication skills.

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• A history of solving difficult engineering problems with novel, custom solutions

• Hands-on experience building developer-facing query systems, implementing technologies such as GraphQL

• Experience evangelizing innovative, internal infrastructure and developer tools

• Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company’s distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach

• A love for new programming languages and syntaxes

Learn more about Livegraph:

• https://www.figma.com/blog/livegraph-real-time-data-fetching-at-figma/

• https://atscaleconference.com/videos/livegraph-scaling-real-time-data-access/

• https://www.figma.com/blog/under-the-hood-of-figmas-infrastructure/

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.