Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Partner directly with strategic enterprise customers to enable the deployment of Figma's developer workflows (specifically 'Make Local'), bridging the gap between customer technical environments and product implementation.
Role type
Senior Solutions Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer
Builds
Customer-facing technical enablement programs, deployment playbooks, and reusable assets for developer workflows
Domain
SaaS / Design Collaboration / Developer Tools
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Modern software development practices, source control, local development environments, debugging, build tooling, enterprise customer partnership, technical discovery, implementation support
Preferred skills
Developer/design/AI product familiarity, frontend development, design systems, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, Dev Infrastructure, scaling customer-facing technical functions
Technologies
Make Local, source control, build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos
Responsibilities
Lead technical discovery and readiness assessments for customer deployments, provide hands-on implementation support and debugging, capture and synthesize product gaps and feedback for engineering, create reusable deployment assets and enablement materials, help define success metrics for forward deployed engagements, contribute to the operating model for the FDE function
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC