Security Scientist

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