Data Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

Overview

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

In Short

• Design and build large-scale distributed data systems that power analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence.
• Develop batch and streaming solutions to ensure data is reliable, efficient, and scalable across the company.
• Manage data ingestion, movement, and processing through core platforms like Snowflake, our ML Datalake, and real-time streaming systems.
• Improve data reliability, consistency, and performance, ensuring high-quality data for engineering, research, and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, data scientists, product engineers, and business teams to understand data needs and build scalable solutions.
• Drive technical decisions and best practices for data ingestion, orchestration, processing, and storage.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience designing and building distributed data infrastructure at scale.
• Strong expertise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster.
• A proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
• A strong sense of engineering excellence, with a focus on high-quality, reliable, and performant systems.
• Excellent technical communication skills, with experience working across both technical and non-technical counterparts.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, take ownership, and drive projects from inception to execution.
• Experience mentoring and supporting engineers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.

Benefits

• Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
• Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.