Data Platform Engineer
Figma · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | United States · Engineering
About this role
Figma is hiring a mid-level Data Engineer based in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, Snowflake, dbt. Compensation is listed at $235,000–$376,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Engineer
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | United States
- Department
- Engineering
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Job description
from Figma careersFigma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build the foundational systems that power Figma’s next generation of AI-driven products and data experiences.
This is a unique opportunity to be an early engineer shaping Figma’s ML and data platform, enabling everything from self-serve analytics to production-grade AI systems. You’ll work at the intersection of data, infrastructure, and machine learning, building scalable systems that empower Data Science, unlock AI capabilities across the company, and bring data and models closer to the product experience.
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:
- Lead work on Figma’s AI data agent to enable self-serve analytics by owning the data-agent layer, building prompt-processing pipelines, instrumenting interactions, and delivering prompt-based usage analytics