Data Engineer Intern (2027)
Figma
$46 / hour
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Description
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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
We are looking for Data Engineering interns who are 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’ll own a scoped project from problem definition through implementation, testing, documentation, and sharing the results.
Some projects you could work on:
- 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
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 interest in making them more scalable and reliable
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Excitement to learn, get 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’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t 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
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.
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.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:
- Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
- Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.
Once the applicable days has passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.
Benefits
- $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
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About this role
Figma's data team is hiring interns to build and maintain the pipelines and datasets that drive decision-making across the company. You'd work on concrete projects—designing ETL jobs, optimizing pipeline performance, creating reusable datasets for analytics—with a manager and mentor guiding you from problem definition through implementation and documentation. The role suits someone with Python or similar coding experience and SQL skills, ideally with some exposure to data pipelines or ETL work, though Figma explicitly welcomes applicants whose background doesn't perfectly match if you're curious and eager to learn.
The internship is based in San Francisco or New York and includes housing and travel support. You'll partner with engineers and analysts across the company to understand data needs and make Figma's data infrastructure more scalable and accessible. This is a hands-on role where you'll own meaningful work and contribute to tools and practices the whole team uses.
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