Figma

Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Figma
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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$153k - $376k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large-scale distributed data systems for analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence.
  • Develop reliable, efficient, and scalable batch and streaming data solutions.
  • Manage and evolve Snowflake, the ML Datalake, orchestration infrastructure, and real-time ingestion systems.
  • Improve data reliability, consistency, compliance, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers, data scientists, product engineers, and business stakeholders to develop scalable data solutions.
  • Drive technical decisions and best practices for data ingestion, orchestration, processing, and storage.
  • Mentor and support engineers and foster 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, Airflow, or Dagster.
  • Demonstrated impact-driven problem-solving experience in fast-paced environments with a focus on reliable and performant systems.
  • Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with Golang, Python, SQL, dbt, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, or Dagster.
  • Preferred experience includes building AI/ML data infrastructure, model serving, feature stores, dataset compliance, reverse ETL, personalization platforms, real-time event ingestion, data governance, access control, or large-scale platform cost optimization.

Benefits

  • Full-time position available from a US hub or remotely in the United States.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or 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 compliant leave benefits.
  • Additional benefits may include recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
  • Equity, and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkdbtGoPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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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