Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure

About the role

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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma's most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team.

What you'll do

• Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma's infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact
• Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
• Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery
• Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies
• Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies
• Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability
• Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications for senior leadership and external stakeholders

What they're looking for

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• A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions or program management practices within an engineering organization
• Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs (SOC 2, FedRAMP, encryption key management)
• Infrastructure incident management and analysis experience
• Experience working with external enterprise partners on technical programs (e.g., Apple, AWS, Google)
• Background in software engineering or site reliability engineering (SWE/SRE-to-TPM career path)