As the Engineering Manager for Observability, you will lead a team of five engineers responsible for shaping the future of visibility and efficiency at Figma. Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Figma’s observability and cost engineering platforms Own and operate Figma’s core observability stack, including vendor platforms such as Datadog, ensuring high availability, strong data quality, and effective signal-to-noise across metrics, logs, and traces Define and drive the technical strategy for instrumentation standards, observability libraries, agents, and operators used to monitor internal and external facing services Explore and implement innovative, AI-driven approaches to anomaly detection, root cause analysis, signal correlation, and operational automation Establish clear frameworks for cost attribution, budgeting, forecasting, and alerting across infrastructure and observability spend, enabling teams to make informed tradeoffs Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, finance, and security teams to improve visibility into system health and cost efficiency at scale Lead initiatives to optimize observability footprint and spend, balancing depth of insight with performance and cost considerations Coach and mentor engineers through career development, performance feedback, and technical leadership, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high quality execution