Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Figma; San Francisco (NY, CA); Remote; USD 149,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a passionate data engineer to join their Data Infrastructure team. This role focuses on designing and building large-scale data systems that empower analytics, AI, and business intelligence. You will work with cutting-edge technologies like Snowflake, Spark, and Kafka, collaborating with diverse teams to ensure data quality and scalability. This position offers the opportunity to tackle high-impact challenges in a dynamic environment, making a significant contribution to the company's mission of making design accessible to all. If you thrive on building efficient data platforms and enjoy mentoring others, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in designing distributed data infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in data processing technologies like Spark and Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale distributed data systems for analytics and AI.
• Collaborate with teams to improve data reliability and performance.

Skills

Distributed Data Infrastructure

Batch Processing

Streaming Data Processing

Problem-Solving

Technical Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Python

SQL

Golang

Job description

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

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:

• 6+ years of 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.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, take ownership, and drive projects from inception to execution.
• 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.

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 anyway. 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.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$149,000 - $350,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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