Figma

Data Platform Engineer

Figma
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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$153k - $376k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve the shared data platform supporting analytics, Data Science, and data-driven product development.
  • Improve local development, testing, deployment, staging, orchestration, and developer workflow capabilities.
  • Create self-service tools and supported paths for building, deploying, and operating reliable data pipelines.
  • Improve reliability through monitoring, data quality, incident response, upgrades, and performance management.
  • Establish clear data definitions, ownership, lineage, and reliability expectations.
  • Partner with Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Science, Research, Modeling Platform, Security, and Product Engineering teams on data delivery patterns and ownership boundaries.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems.
  • Strong software engineering skills using Python or a similar language, with experience designing reliable and scalable systems.
  • Experience improving developer workflows involving local development, testing, CI/CD, orchestration, or deployment.
  • Experience with modern data infrastructure, including cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks, workflow orchestrators, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
  • Experience owning shared systems end to end, leading ambiguous cross-functional projects, and communicating with technical partner teams.
  • Experience supporting machine learning or research data workflows is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time role available from a US hub or remotely within the United States.
  • Equity, health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave; reproductive and family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off.
  • Paid sick leave, holidays, flexible PTO for eligible exempt employees, and other legally required leave benefits.
  • Potential company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, lifestyle spending accounts, and annual bonus eligibility for eligible non-sales employees.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the application and employment process.
  • In-person onboarding is required if hired, and cameras are required during video interviews.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
Figma

About Figma

1,001-5,000 employees

Figma builds a browser-based platform for interface design, prototyping, whiteboarding, and developer handoff used by product, design, and engineering teams. Its main products—Figma Design and FigJam—are sold as SaaS with tiered subscriptions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, plus an ecosystem of plugins and integrations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and enables real-time collaboration on the web and desktop apps.

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