Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure
Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure
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$ 149000 - 350000
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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 its 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 longlasting companies we believe that nothing great is made alonecomemake with us!
The Data Infrastructure team at Figma builds and operates the foundational platforms that power analytics AI and datadriven decisionmaking across the company. We serve a diverse set of stakeholders including AI Researchers Machine Learning Engineers Data Scientists Product Engineers and business teams that rely on data for insights and strategy. Our team owns and scales critical data platforms such as the Snowflake data warehouse ML Datalake and largescale data movement and processing applications managing all data flowing into and out of these platforms.
Despite being a small team we take on highscale highimpact challenges. In the coming years were focused on building the foundational infrastructure to support AIpowered products developing streaming interconnects between our core systems and revamping our orchestration and financial data architecture with a strong emphasis on data quality reliability and efficiency. If youre passionate about building scalable highperformance data platforms that empower teams across Figma wed love to hear from you!
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What youll do at Figma:
- Design and build largescale 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 realtime streaming systems.
- Improve data reliability consistency and performance ensuring highquality 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.
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
- 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 impactdriven problemsolving in a fastpaced environment.
- A strong sense of engineering excellence with a focus on highquality reliable and performant systems.
- Excellent technical communication skills with experience working across both technical and nontechnical counterparts.
- The ability to navigate ambiguity take ownership and drive projects from inception to .
- Experience mentoring and supporting engineers fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.
While its not required its an added plus if you also have:
- Experience with data governance access control and cost optimization strategies for largescale data platforms.
- Familiarity with our stack including Golang Python SQL frameworks such as dbt and technologies like Spark Kafka Snowflake and Dagster.
- Experience designing data infrastructure for AI/ML pipelines.
At Figma one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figmas San Francisco or New York hub offices this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including but not limited to individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience potential impact and scope of role) market demands and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80 and 100 of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees as well 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. Figmas compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$149000 $350000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity/expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
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Employment Type
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