Compliance Engineer
Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
About this role
## Compliance Engineer — Figma 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. As a **Compliance Engineer** at Figma, you’ll design, implement, and test security controls across multiple compliance frameworks, including **FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST**. You’ll collaborate 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’ll 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 is a **full-time** role that can be held from one of our **US hubs** or **remotely in the United States**. --- ### What you’ll do at Figma - 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 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 (IAM, 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 --- ### Added plus (not required) - Experience developing JSON-based control definitions, JSON Schema, or machine-readable compliance documentation; plus REST API integrations and custom automation workflows - Familiarity with **OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language)** - Proficiency in **Python** (or similar) for compliance automation, including automated evidence collection - Experience using **Git** and collaborative development workflows - Hands-on exper
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