Software Engineer - Traffic

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Server Platform is at the core of Figma's infrastructure foundation! This area owns the foundational layer of infrastructure that underpins all other infrastructure and application services at Figma. The Foundation team under Server Platform is Infrastructure's infrastructure. This team enables the efficient operation and rapid development of reliable infrastructure at Figma through opinionated platforms.

What it asks for · 5

• 4+ years of experience building infrastructure components and services at scale in a cloud environment
• Experience with programming languages like TypeScript or Go
• Experience building and scaling distributed and traffic systems as an individual contributor and/or Team Lead
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
• Experience communicating cross-functionally and working with teams handling network and traffic systems at scale for millions of customers

Also a plus

• Deep knowledge of DDoS attack mechanisms and mitigation solutions on AWS or Cloud environments
• Significant background securing network infrastructure
• Traffic analytics using VPC Flow Logs, Lambda, and other data sources
• Experience with TCP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL protocols
• Experience with network proxies like Envoy and Haproxy

What the job covers

• Design, build and operate scalable distributed systems and services that power Figma's innovative tools for design and collaboration
• Develop and secure our internal and edge network running on AWS
• Help design and deploy an internal service mesh network which can support Figma's growing portfolio of services and features
• Develop intelligent detection and auto-scaling countermeasures for DDoS threats
• Debug and resolve production issues across services and multiple layers of the stack, reducing mean time to resolution for critical incidents

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• infrastructure10×
• experience8×
• services7×
• design6×
• network6×
• building4×
• platform4×
• traffic4×
• develop3×
• excited3×
• growing3×
• aws2×
• cloud2×
• collaboration2×
• customer2×
• ddos2×

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