Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools

About the Role

Figma's AI Tools team builds the AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling that make every engineer at the company more productive. From agentic CI auto-fixing and AI-assisted code review to background cloud agents that turn a Slack message into a pull request, this team owns the systems that are transforming how Figma builds software. The team operates across a three-layer platform stack—sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration—while shipping and maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows that compound across hundreds of engineers.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform that powers them
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, spanning sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and org-wide agentic workflows
• Hire and scale the team - establishing team culture, execution cadence, and operational processes from the ground up
• Drive the reliability, observability, and scalability of our cloud agent platform, ensuring it meets production-grade standards as adoption grows across the engineering organization
• Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and Dev Ex teams to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for AI-assisted developer workflows and drive adoption
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools, models, and agent frameworks, making strategic bets on which capabilities to build versus buy
• Establish evaluation frameworks to measure the quality, cost, and impact of AI-generated code and agentic workflows across the organization
• Coach and mentor engineers through career development, performance feedback, and technical leadership, fostering a culture of ownership, speed, and high-quality execution

• 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or developer experience engineering teams, with a track record of scaling teams and delivering high-performing systems
• Strong software engineering background, with Staff-level or above technical depth before moving into management with deep understanding of distributed systems
  , platform architecture
  , and the operational challenges of running production infrastructure at scale
• Demonstrated fluency with AI/ML systems
  , LLM-based workflows
  , or agent architectures - as a builder, not just a consumer - with the ability to reason about tradeoffs in nondeterministic systems
• Experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Ability to set technical direction, drive cross-functional alignment, and make sound architectural decisions while balancing speed of execution with long-term sustainability

• Direct experience building AI developer tooling
  , agent platforms
  , or AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Familiarity with agent frameworks such as Cursor
  , Claude Code
  , or similar background agent systems, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations
• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal
  , n8n
  , or Tines for multi-stage automation
• Background in developer experience platforms including CI/CD systems
  , build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments
• Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-generated outputs