Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

Role Overview

Figma is hiring a Technical Program Manager (TPM), Infrastructure to lead Figma’s most important cross-company engineering efforts. This TPM role partners with the Infrastructure team to coordinate technical execution across multiple backend, infrastructure, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution, coordination, and risk management for key infrastructure projects with minimal performance impact
• Drive infrastructure initiatives across areas such as:
  • Reliability and high availability
  • Storage and large-scale data systems
  • Distributed systems and cloud-native performance improvements
  • Compliance programs, including encryption/key management, FedRAMP, and SOC 2
• Coordinate delivery across multiple infrastructure teams (e.g., data, caching, observability, security)
• Track milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery across teams
• Provide status updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal stakeholders (risks, blockers, dependencies)
• Develop and drive best practices for infrastructure program management and visibility
• Facilitate testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime
• Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (e.g., cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering)
• Hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Deep infrastructure understanding across components such as:
  • Storage: S3, RDS, DynamoDB
  • Caching: Redis
  • Search: OpenSearch
  • Event-driven systems: Kafka
• Proven track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs (e.g., migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, reliability)
• Strong cross-functional program management across multi-team engineering orgs; ability to operate in ambiguity
• Stakeholder management, including working with external partners (cloud providers, enterprise customers) and communicating clearly at the executive level

Nice to Have

• Experience setting up and scaling TPM functions or infrastructure program management practices