Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers at Figma sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and our most strategic customers. In this role, you’ll work hands-on with customers adopting emerging Figma developer workflows, starting with Make Local, to understand their technical environments, unblock implementation, and translate real-world deployment patterns into product and engineering insights.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with strategic customers to understand their technical goals, workflows, codebase environments, and implementation constraints
• Lead technical discovery and readiness assessments for customer deployments, including repo/environment setup, permissions, configuration needs, and potential adoption blockers
• Provide hands-on implementation support for Make Local and related developer-facing workflows, including setup guidance, debugging, escalation triage, and recommendations on technical implementation patterns
• Closely work with Customer Enablement Managers, Solutions Consultants, Sales, and account teams to align on customer goals, stakeholders, success criteria, timelines, and account context
• Capture and synthesize product gaps, bugs, workflow patterns, technical blockers, and customer feedback for Product and Engineering teams
• Create reusable deployment assets such as technical troubleshooting guides, readiness checklists, account intake templates, implementation playbooks, and customer-facing enablement materials
• Help define how Figma should measure success for forward deployed engineering engagements, including time to first workflow, setup success, adoption, active usage, customer feedback, and support effort
• Contribute to the operating model for Figma’s Forward Deployed Engineering function, helping determine where FDE support is most valuable, how engagements should be scoped, and how the function should scale

Requirements

• Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, Sales Engineer, Developer Advocate, or similar
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, local development environments, deployment workflows, debugging, and build tooling
• Proven ability to partner with enterprise customers to solve complex technical challenges and drive successful product implementations
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences across cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous environments by creating scalable processes, collaborating across teams, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and modern developer workflows

Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with developer, design, collaboration, or AI products, particularly those that connect design and engineering workflows
• Proven success partnering with enterprise customers on implementation, onboarding, migrations, technical enablement, and product adoption
• Solid understanding of modern engineering practices, including frontend development, design systems, component libraries, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and Dev Infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to build, scale, or launch customer-facing technical functions, pilot programs, services, or engineering practices
• Ability to translate customer insights and deployment trends into product strategy, documentation, roadmap recommendations, and engineering priorities

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Proficiency in relevant programming languages and tools

Benefits

At Figma, we offer a competitive package of additional benefits, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Roth and traditional 401(k) plans with company contributions
• Paid parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Generous paid time off and company recharge days
• A learning and development stipend
• A work-from-home stipend
• Cell phone reimbursement

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is $152,800 - $296,000 USD. Actual compensation will be determined 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.

Schedule

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