Figma
Data Platform Engineer
$153K–$376K
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US - Experience
- 5+ years building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems.
About the job
Build and operate Figma’s shared data platform for analytics, data science, and AI-driven products.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve platform systems and developer workflows for data development, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Create self-service tools and improve data pipeline reliability, monitoring, data quality, and performance.
- Establish trusted data practices and partner across teams on supported data delivery patterns.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills (Python or similar) and experience designing reliable, scalable systems.
- Experience improving developer workflows such as local development, testing, CI/CD, orchestration, or deployment.
- Experience with modern data infrastructure, such as cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks, workflow orchestrators, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
- Track record of owning shared systems end to end, leading cross-functional projects, and communicating effectively with partner teams.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting ML or research data workflows.
Pay
$153,000 — $376,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, CI/CD
AI focus
Build foundational data and ML platform systems that enable AI capabilities and production-grade AI systems.
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