Data Engineer Intern (2027)

Figma•San Francisco, NY

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Figma is growing its 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. This internship is 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.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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
Own a scoped project from problem definition through implementation, testing, documentation, and sharing the results.