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About the Role
As a Security Scientist, you will leverage your data analysis skills to identify and drive impactful projects that improve the safety and security of Figma's product, platform, and IT systems. The mission of the Figma Security team is to help Figmates ship the most secure and safe product to our users. You will partner closely with teams in Security Engineering and across the company to focus on systemic security and safety improvements and risk reduction. You will also apply your security expertise and analytical skills to support and participate in security design reviews and consulting, incident response, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to understand existing security and anti-abuse problems and work with engineering, product, data science, and other teams on solutions.
- Understand attacker and user behavior on the Figma platform and inside Figma through creation of new datasets, metrics, experimentation, etc., and guide strategy and decision making.
- Build detections, tune signal quality, and measure coverage across Figma's products, platforms, and internal systems, turning attacker behavior into durable, data-driven detections.
- Lead and support security investigations, developing the datasets, tooling, and analysis that help scope incidents, understand root cause, and reduce time to detect and respond.
- Translate threat intelligence into action, operationalizing intel on relevant threat actors and techniques to prioritize detection coverage, harden high-risk surfaces, and guide security strategy.
- Conduct investigations and design reviews to identify current and new attack vectors against Figma products and services.
- Advocate for security and secure practices throughout Figma.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of real-world security, anti-abuse, and detection and response challenges.
- Fluency in SQL, with proficiency in Python, R, or a similar scripting language.
- Experience working with distributed data processing systems and frameworks such as Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, or Spark.
- Strong knowledge of statistical methods and experimental design.
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.
- A self-starting mindset along with strong communication and collaboration skills.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Security
- Anti-abuse
- Detection and response
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Distributed data processing
- Statistical methods
- Experimental design
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- US hubs
- Remote in the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000—$348,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Holidays
- Other leave benefits
- Paid flexible PTO
- Company recharge days
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
- Lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation (for most sales roles)
- Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles)
About the Company
- 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.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
Equal Opportunity
- 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.