About the company
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
Responsibilities
- Own horizontal, high-visibility performance programs that span:
- Flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability)
- Desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native / WebView), and WASM contexts
- Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry, regression prevention (performance CI), xfn performance forum, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)
Requirements
- 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products
- Demonstrated experience with load, stress, performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
- Deep familiarity with web performance (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS, WASM memory, mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler)
- CI/CD and test automation experience: integrating performance tests into pipelines
- Distributed systems, cloud infra (AWS), autoscaling, and capacity planning
- Hands-on prior work with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent platforms
Conditions
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- Annual Base Salary Range: $185,000 — $317,000 USD