Description
Figma is growing our team of creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
We're looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure.
At Figma, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests.
This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub with a January 4, 2027 start date.
Engineering Interests at Figma: When you apply, you'll tell us which areas you're most interested in to help us understand which kinds of engineering work you're most excited about:
- Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more
- Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more
- Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features
- Open: I'm flexible and still exploring different types of work
What you'll do at Figma:
- Be fully embedded onto a Figma engineering team
- Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
- Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
- Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
- Share feedback and participate in peer code review
- Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!
Some past intern projects:
- Diagramming improvements in FigJam
- Smart selection
- Shared fonts
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
- Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
- Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
- Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer
Pay Transparency Disclosure This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Internship $55-$55 USD