Security Scientist

What you'll do at Figma:

• Collaborate cross-functionally across the company 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 us 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.

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

• 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.

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

• A self-starting mindset along with strong communication and collaboration skills.

What Figma offers:

• Competitive salary range: $140,000 — $348,000 USD.
• Equity to employees.
• 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, including paid sick leave and holidays.
• Flexible paid sick leave and PTO subject to manager approval.
• Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.