# Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

**Company**: Figma
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $153,000-$376,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Figma is growing its team of 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.

The Data Platform team at Figma builds and operates the foundational systems that power analytics, AI/ML, and data-driven decision-making across the company. The team serves 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.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build large-scale distributed data systems that power analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence across Figma.

- Develop batch and streaming solutions to ensure data is reliable, efficient, and scalable across the company.

- Manage and evolve core platforms like Snowflake, ML Datalake, orchestration infrastructure, and real-time ingestion systems.

- Improve data reliability, consistency, and compliance, ensuring high-quality data for engineering, research, and business stakeholders.

- Identify and drive cost optimization opportunities across data processing, compute infrastructure, and storage.

- 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.

- Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, including 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.

- Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in fast-paced environments, with a strong focus on high-quality, reliable, and performant systems.

- Excellent technical communication skills, with experience collaborating across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.

Nice to Have:

- Familiarity with Figma's stack, including Golang, Python, SQL, frameworks such as dbt, and technologies like Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Dagster.

- Experience building data infrastructure for AI/ML pipelines, including model serving, feature stores, or dataset compliance.

- Experience with reverse ETL, personalization platforms, or real-time event ingestion systems.

- Experience with data governance, access control, and cost optimization strategies for large-scale data platforms.

- The ability to navigate ambiguity, take ownership, and drive projects from inception to execution.

Benefits:

- Annual base salary range: $153,000-$376,000 USD

- Equity to employees

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed data systems
- batch and streaming data processing
- Snowflake
- ML Datalake
- data governance

### Nice to have
- Golang
- Python
- SQL
- dbt
- Spark
- Kafka
- Dagster
- reverse ETL
- personalization platforms
- real-time event ingestion systems

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