Compliance Engineer

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!

As a Compliance Engineer at Figma, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and testing security controls across multiple compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. You will collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to translate regulatory requirements into effective technical controls, evaluate control effectiveness, and identify opportunities to improve security and compliance processes. You will also help advance Figma’s compliance engineering capabilities by leveraging automation, machine-readable control definitions (JSON), APIs, and AI-assisted development tools to streamline control testing, evidence collection, and continuous monitoring. This role combines deep security compliance expertise with technical problem-solving to build scalable, repeatable, and effective compliance practices.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Develop and verify technical security controls that satisfy multiple compliance frameworks
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to translate compliance requirements into effective technical controls
• Design and execute control testing procedures to assess control performance, surface gaps, and verify that remediation is complete
• Establish repeatable control assessments and continuous monitoring processes to evaluate compliance effectiveness
• Translate security requirements into structured, machine-readable JSON definitions to support control management, testing, and automation
• Build and maintain API integrations and automated workflows to streamline evidence collection, control validation, and compliance processes
• Identify opportunities to improve control effectiveness, reduce manual effort, and scale compliance operations across multiple frameworks
• We’d love to hear from you if you have:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security compliance, security assurance, IT audit, or compliance engineering
• Experience with security compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-53, designing, implementing, and testing technical security controls in SaaS or cloud environments
• Experience testing security controls for design and operating performance, including surfacing gaps and confirming fixes
• Understanding of cloud security concepts, including identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, and security configurations
• Experience working with engineering teams to implement compliance requirements as technical solutions
• Experience with JSON, REST APIs, and automation, applied to compliance engineering challenges
• While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
• Experience developing JSON-based control definitions, JSON Schema, or machine-readable compliance documentation, and REST API integrations and custom automation workflows
• Familiarity with Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL)
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages for compliance automation, including experience with compliance automation platforms and automated evidence collection
• Experience using Git, version control, and collaborative development workflows
• Hands-on experience with cloud security technologies, particularly AWS
• 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.

Conditions

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$169,000 - $296,000 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 - 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.

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.

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.