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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 Data Platform team at Figma builds and operates the foundational systems that power analytics, AI/ML, and data-driven decision-making across the company. We serve a diverse set of stakeholders, including AI researchers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, product engineers, and business teams that rely on data for insights and strategy. Our team owns and scales critical platforms such as the Snowflake data warehouse, ML Datalake, orchestration and pipeline infrastructure, and large-scale data ingestion and processing systems, managing all data flowing into and out of these platforms.
Despite being a small team, we take on high-scale, high-impact challenges. In the coming years, we're focused on building the data infrastructure layer for Figma's AI-powered products, driving cost and performance optimizations across our data stack, scaling our ingestion and reverse ETL capabilities for new product use cases, and strengthening data quality, reliability, and compliance at every layer. If you're passionate about building scalable, high-performance data platforms that empower teams across Figma, we'd love to hear from you!
This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
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The salary range for the Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure position at Figma is USD 153k-376k/yr.
The Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure position at Figma is based in San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States; Canada; US. This is an on-site position.
The Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure position at Figma is a Full time role.
The Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure position at Figma requires 5+ yrs exp.
Key skills for the Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure position at Figma include: figma, machine learning, snowflake, kafka, airflow, go, python, sql, dbt.
