Data Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States or from Figma hubs in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY; in-person onboarding required

Annual base salary: $153,000–$376,000 USD

Company

Figma develops a collaborative design platform that helps teams create, prototype, translate designs into code, and work together in real time.

What you will do

• Build and evolve shared data platform systems supporting analytics, Data Science, and data-driven product development.
• Improve local development, testing, CI/CD, staging, and deployment workflows for data systems.
• Create self-service tools and reliable paths for building, deploying, and operating data pipelines.
• Improve monitoring, data quality, incident response, upgrades, and performance management for critical systems.
• Establish data definitions, ownership, lineage, and reliability expectations.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Science, Research, Modeling Platform, Security, and Product Engineering on batch, micro-batch, reverse ETL, and product-facing delivery patterns.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering skills with Python or a similar language, including reliable and scalable system design.
• Experience improving local development, testing, CI/CD, orchestration, or deployment workflows.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks, workflow orchestrators, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
• Experience owning shared systems end to end, leading ambiguous cross-functional projects, and communicating with Data Science, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering partners.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting machine learning or research data workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity and competitive employee benefits.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement benefits with company contributions.
• Parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and mental health and wellness benefits.
• Paid time off, paid sick leave, holidays, flexible PTO for eligible exempt employees, and possible recharge days.
• Additional benefits may include cell phone and home internet reimbursements and lifestyle spending accounts.

Hiring process

• Qualifications, job level, and compensation are assessed during the interview process.
• Video interviews require candidates to keep their cameras on.
• In-person onboarding is required after hiring.