Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)
We're looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At Figma, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year, we're inviting you to share your interests from the start, so we can create the strongest possible match.
Our interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You'll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems. Whether you're working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, you'll get to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment.
This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub with a January 4, 2027 start date.
Engineering Interests at Figma:
When you apply, you'll tell us which areas you're most interested in to help us understand which kinds of engineering work you're most excited about:
Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more
Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more
Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features
Open: I'm flexible and still exploring different types of work
What you'll do at Figma:
Be fully embedded onto a Figma engineering team
Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
Share feedback and participate in peer code review
Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!
Some past intern projects:
Diagramming improvements in FigJam
Smart selection
Shared fonts
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer
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.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Internship
$55—$55 USD