Security Engineer

Platform Security

• Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews for changes to Figma’s cloud and corporate infrastructure.
• Design and develop solutions to prevent or mitigate cloud and corporate security risks.
• Advocate for secure practices within Figma’s cloud and corporate infrastructure.
• Build platforms and tooling to detect and respond to infrastructure and corporate security threats.

Product Security

• Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews for new product features.
• Design and develop solutions to prevent or mitigate product security vulnerabilities.
• Advocate for secure development practices across Figma’s products and services.
• Help run penetration testing, offensive security exercises, and support our bug bounty program.
• Help respond to product security incidents.

Anti-Abuse

• Design and build technical systems to prevent spam, fraud, and abuse.
• Partner closely with product teams to identify and address potential abuse vectors.
• Develop new signals and improve the use of existing signals to detect abusive behavior.
• Help respond to spam, fraud, and abuse incidents.

Requirements

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

• 5+ years of proven engineering experience working in either a Security Engineering or a Software Engineering role. In the case of the latter, some security experience is preferred.
• Strong security judgment in threat modeling and risk prioritization and/or strong technical judgment in designing and building maintainable, scalable systems.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose coding language.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating across functions.

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Subject matter expertise in Application Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Data Access Governance, and/or IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Demonstrated ability to make hard prioritization decisions in security controls.

Benefits

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000 — $376,000 USD