Data Engineer

Overview

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.

What you'll do

• Develop a deep understanding of Figma’s core data model s and optimize data pipelines for scale.
• Partner with the Data Science and Data Infrastructure teams to build new foundational data sets that are trusted, well understood, and enable self-service .
• Work with a wide range of cross-functional stakeholders to derive requirements and architect shared datasets; ability to document, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences.
• Establish best practices for the development of specialized data sets for analytics and modeling.
• We'd love to hear from you if you have: 4 + years in a relevant field.
• Fluency with both SQL and Python.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and ETL/reverse ETL tools.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills.

Requirements

• Establish best practices for the development of specialized data sets for analytics and modeling.
• We'd love to hear from you if you have: 4 + years in a relevant field.
• Fluency with both SQL and Python.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and ETL/reverse ETL tools.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills.
• A self-starting mindset along with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Knowledge in data modeling methodologies to design and build robust data architectures for insightful analytics.
• Experience with business systems such as Salesforce , Customer IO, Stripe, NetSuite is a big plus.

Skills