[Remote] Data Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is a design and collaboration platform company that helps teams bring ideas to life through real-time creative workflows and AI-enabled products. Figma is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to build foundational data and machine learning platform systems, improve development and deployment workflows, enable reliable self-service data pipelines, and support analytics and production AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the shared data platform that powers analytics, Data Science, and data-driven product development at Figma
- Make data development faster and easier by improving local development, testing, CI/CD, staging, and deployment workflows
- Create self-service tools and clear paths for teams to build, deploy, and operate reliable data pipelines
- Improve the reliability of critical data systems through better monitoring, data quality, incident response, upgrades, and performance management
- Make trusted data easier to find and use by establishing clear definitions, ownership, lineage, and reliability expectations
- 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
Skills
- * 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems
- * Strong software engineering skills (Python or similar), with experience designing reliable and 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
- * A track record of owning shared systems end to end, leading ambiguous cross-functional projects, and communicating effectively with Data Science, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering partners
- * Experience supporting ML or research data workflows
Benefits
- Equity for employees
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave
- Reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Holidays and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
- Employer-provided paid flexible PTO for exempt employees
- Flexible paid sick leave for exempt employees
- Company recharge days may be available
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements may be available
- Lifestyle spending accounts may be available
- Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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