Security Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States or remotely in the United States

Salary: $149,000 - $350,000 USD

Company

Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.

What you will do

• Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews.
• Design and develop solutions to prevent or mitigate cloud and corporate security risks.
• Advocate for secure practices across Figma’s AI infrastructure, platforms, and data systems.
• Build platforms and tooling to detect and respond to infrastructure and corporate security threats.
• Help run penetration testing, offensive security exercises, and support our bug bounty program.
• Help respond to spam, fraud, and abuse incidents.

Requirements

• 5+ years of proven engineering experience working in either a Security Engineering or a Software Engineering role.
• Strong security judgment in threat modeling and risk prioritization.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose coding language.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating across functions.

Nice to have

• Subject matter expertise in Application Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Data Access Governance, and/or IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Demonstrated ability to make hard prioritization decisions in security controls.

Culture & Benefits

• 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.

Hiring process

• 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.
• If hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.