Data Platform Engineer for AI-Driven Analytics

Figma; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health and dental insurance

Paid time off

Flexible PTO

Home internet reimbursement

Job summary

Figma is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join its Data Engineering team to build the foundational systems powering AI-driven products and data experiences. The role is full-time and can be remote within the United States or based in a US hub.

You will help shape Figma’s ML and data platform, enabling self-serve analytics and production-grade AI systems while collaborating across data teams and product engineering. Strong coding and data infra experience are essential.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the shared data platform that powers analytics, Data Science, and data-driven product development at Figma.
• Improve local development, testing, CI/CD, staging, and deployment workflows.
• Create self-service tools and clear paths for teams to build, deploy, and operate reliable data pipelines.
• Improve the reliability of critical data systems through better monitoring, data quality, incident response, upgrades, and performance management.
• Make trusted data easier to find and use by establishing clear definitions, ownership, lineage, and reliability expectations.
• Partner across Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Science, Research, Modeling Platform, Security, and Product Engineering to define ownership boundaries and supported patterns for batch, micro-batch, reverse ETL, and product-facing delivery.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Data platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Cloud data warehouses

Airflow

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Figma is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join its Data Engineering team to build the foundational systems powering AI-driven products and data experiences. The role is full-time and can be remote within the United States or based in a US hub.

You will help shape Figma’s ML and data platform, enabling self-serve analytics and production-grade AI systems while collaborating across data teams and product engineering. Strong coding and data infra experience are essential.