Data Platform Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!</p></div><p>We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build the foundational systems that power Figma’s next generation of AI-driven products and data experiences.</p> <p>This is a unique opportunity to be an early engineer shaping Figma’s ML and data platform, enabling everything from self-serve analytics to production-grade AI systems. You’ll work at the intersection of data, infrastructure, and machine learning, building scalable systems that empower Data Science, unlock AI capabilities across the company, and bring data and models closer to the product experience.</p> <p>This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do at Figma:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and evolve the shared data platform that powers analytics, Data Science, and data-driven product development at Figma</li> <li>Make data development faster and easier by improving local development, testing, CI/CD, staging, and deployment workflows</li> <li>Create self-service tools and clear paths for teams to build, deploy, and operate reliable data pipelines</li> <li>Improve the reliability of critical data systems through better monitoring, data quality, incident response, upgrades, and performance management</li> <li>Make trusted data easier to find and use by establishing clear definitions, ownership, lineage, and reliability expectations</li> <li>Partner across Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Science, Research, Modeling Platform, Security, and Product Engineering to define ownership boundaries and supported patterns for batch, micro-batch, reverse ETL, and product-facing delivery</li> </ul> <h4><strong>We’d love to hear from you if you have:</strong></h4> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems</li> <li>Strong software engineering skills (Python or similar), with experience designing reliable and scalable systems</li> <li>Experience improving developer workflows such as local development, testing, CI/CD, orchestration, or deployment</li> <li>Experience with modern data infrastructure, such as cloud dat