Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

The Data Infrastructure team at Figma builds and operates the foundational platforms that power analytics AI 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 data platforms such as the Snowflake data warehouse ML Datalake and large-scale data movement and processing applications 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 foundational infrastructure to support AI-powered products developing streaming interconnects between our core systems and revamping our orchestration and financial data architecture with a strong emphasis on data quality reliability and efficiency. 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.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Design and build large-scale distributed data systems that power analytics AI/ML and business intelligence.

• Develop batch and streaming solutions to ensure data is reliable efficient and scalable across the company.

• Manage data ingestion movement and processing through core platforms like Snowflake our ML Datalake and real-time streaming systems.

• Improve data reliability consistency and performance ensuring high-quality data for engineering research and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with AI researchers data scientists product engineers and business teams to understand data needs and build scalable solutions.

• Drive technical decisions and best practices for data ingestion orchestration processing and storage.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering.

• Experience designing and building distributed data infrastructure at scale.

• Strong expertise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark Flink Kafka or Airflow/Dagster.

• A proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

• A strong sense of engineering excellence with a focus on high-quality reliable and performant systems.

• Excellent technical communication skills with experience working across both technical and non-technical counterparts.

• Experience mentoring and supporting engineers fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.

While it’s not required it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience with data governance access control and cost optimization strategies for large-scale data platforms.

• Familiarity with our stack including Golang Python SQL frameworks such as dbt and technologies like Spark Kafka Snowflake and Dagster.

• Experience designing data infrastructure for AI/ML pipelines.

• The ability to navigate ambiguity take ownership and drive projects from inception to execution.

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$149000—$350000 USD