# Security Scientist

**Company**: Figma
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $348,000 USD per year
**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.

As a Security Scientist, you will leverage your data analysis skills to identify and drive impactful projects to improve the safety and security of Figma's product, platform, and IT systems.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate cross-functionally across the company to understand existing security and anti-abuse problems and work with engineering, product, data science, and other teams on solutions

- Understand attacker and user behavior on the Figma platform and inside Figma through creation of new datasets, metrics, experimentation, etc., and guide strategy and decision making

- Build detections, tune signal quality, and measure coverage across Figma's products, platforms, and internal systems, turning attacker behavior into durable, data-driven detections

- Lead and support security investigations, developing the datasets, tooling, and analysis that help us scope incidents, understand root cause, and reduce time to detect and respond

- Translate threat intelligence into action, operationalizing intel on relevant threat actors and techniques to prioritize detection coverage, harden high-risk surfaces, and guide security strategy

- Conduct investigations and design reviews to identify current and new attack vectors against Figma products and services

- Advocate for security and secure practices throughout Figma

Requirements:

- Strong understanding of real-world security, anti-abuse, and detection and response challenges

- Fluency in SQL, with proficiency in Python, R, or a similar scripting language

- Experience working with distributed data processing systems and frameworks such as Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, or Spark

- Strong knowledge of statistical methods and experimental design

- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills

Benefits:

- Health, dental, and vision coverage

- Retirement benefits with company contributions

- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support

- Mental health and wellness benefits

- Paid time off

- Company recharge days

- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements

- Lifestyle spending accounts

Salary: $140,000 - $348,000 USD per year

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Hive
- Redshift
- Presto
- Snowflake
- Spark
- statistical methods
- experimental design

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