Data Engineer Intern (2027)

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Our platform empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and collaborate in real time—from brainstorming and prototyping to code translation and AI iteration. If you are excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We are looking for Data Engineering Interns excited to help scale the systems and pipelines that power decision-making at Figma. As an intern on our data team, you will partner with engineers and analysts to design and build reliable datasets, ensure data quality, and make Figma's data more accessible across the company. This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub.

What You'll Do at Figma

• Build, test, and document data pipelines that bring product or business data into Figma’s data warehouse.
• Help design foundational datasets that are trusted, well-documented, and easy to use.
• Optimize pipelines for performance and scalability as Figma grows.
• Partner with cross-functional teammates to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
• Contribute to the tools and practices that make working with data at Figma easier.
• With support from a manager and mentor, you will own a scoped project from problem definition through implementation, testing, documentation, and sharing the results.

Potential Projects

• Develop new ETL jobs to integrate product or business data into our warehouse.
• Improve the performance and reliability of core pipelines.
• Build reusable datasets that support experimentation, product, and business analytics, or cross-functional stakeholders.
• Document and simplify complex data workflows for broader use.

Qualifications and Enthusiasm

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience coding in Python or a similar language and writing SQL queries.
• Experience building or working with data pipelines, ETL, or large datasets.
• Curiosity about how data systems work and an interest in making them more scalable and reliable.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Excitement to learn, receive feedback, and grow as a data engineer.

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 you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with the points outlined, we encourage you to apply anyway—you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation and Culture

Pay Transparency Disclosure: This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Internship Hourly Pay: $46 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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