Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer for Enterprise

Figma; United States; On-site; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Parental leave

Paid time off

Sick leave

Flexible PTO

Bonus plan

Job summary

Figma is growing its Forward Deployed Engineering team to tackle real-world adoption challenges when deploying our products in large enterprise environments. You will embed with strategic customers, write code in customer environments, and build reusable playbooks rather than owning their codebase long-term.

This senior/staff-level role is customer-facing, highly collaborative, and can be based from a US hub or fully remote in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production software end-to-end, with meaningful time embedded with customers or partner teams.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and technical partnership skills, with the ability to build trust with senior engineers and translate customer needs into actionable product and engineering solutions
• Strong engineering fundamentals and adaptability, with the ability to quickly navigate unfamiliar codebases, languages, and technical environments to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Hands-on experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows, including component libraries, tokens, documentation, and the tooling that connects design artifacts to production code.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python, including demonstrated fluency with agentic coding tools (e.g., MCP, agent orchestration). You have hands-on experience integrating APIs and SDKs, troubleshooting toolchains and CI environments, and navigating enterprise requirements such as SSO, security reviews, access controls, data residency, and compliance frameworks.
• Comfort owning ambiguous technical problems end to end, identifying patterns across customer engagements, and turning field learning into reusable product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Make an enterprise design system agent-ready so AI tools generate faithful, on-system code: fix tokens, naming, and guidelines, wire up Code Connect, and run evals.
• Get Make Local, Code Layers, and our newest products working in a customer’s real environment, writing code, config, agent skills, and guideline files against their systems and ours.
• Run technical discovery: understand a customer’s dev environment, toolchain, and constraints, then scope the fastest credible path to value, in addition to setting the customer up for long term success.
• Debug hard, unfamiliar integration problems (git workflows, CI, dev-environment setup, non-standard stacks).
• Build LLM-powered workflows: MCP setup, agent skills, and prompt engineering tuned to each customer’s context.
• Turn one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and product feedback, so patterns you solve once become self-serve or shipped product.
• Bring learnings on friction back to Figma’s Product and Engineering teams, influence what gets built next, and often build it.

Skills

Production software experience

Customer-facing communication

Engineering fundamentals

Design systems experience

TypeScript/JavaScript or Python

APIs & SDKs integration

Tools

Code Connect

Storybook

Style Dictionary

Job description

Figma is growing its Forward Deployed Engineering team to tackle real-world adoption challenges when deploying our products in large enterprise environments. You will embed with strategic customers, write code in customer environments, and build reusable playbooks rather than owning their codebase long-term.

This senior/staff-level role is customer-facing, highly collaborative, and can be based from a US hub or fully remote in the United States.