Figma

High confidence

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Fit

Activity

Your opener

“As Figma scales polyglot builds across TypeScript and Go, FlowPilot can accelerate your GitHub Actions and Buildkite CI pipelines with remote caching and instant preview environments on Kubernetes.”

Built on: Directly references Figma's verified usage of TypeScript, Go, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, and Kubernetes to pitch FlowPilot's build acceleration and ephemeral preview features without making assumptions or using generic templates.

Evidence: F1 F4 F24 F27

Talking points

1Figma actively recruits for Developer Experience engineers with expertise in CI platforms like Buildkite and build tools such as Bazel and Gradle to optimize engineering workflows. J2 F28 F29

Engineering context

Gemini 3.6-flash · from cited evidence only

Figma builds primarily using TypeScript, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Rust, and Python across its public repositories, alongside Kotlin, C++, and Java referenced in job postings and open-source updates. Its infrastructure relies on cloud platforms including AWS and Google Cloud, with Microsoft Azure also noted in engineering listings. Architecturally, Figma employs distributed systems, event-driven architectures with Kafka and PostgreSQL, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform. For CI/CD and build systems, evidence indicates usage of Gradle, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, and Bazel within polyglot monorepo environments.

Figma maintains strong engineering momentum, evidenced by a active GitHub presence, open-source releases like code-connect v2.0.2 and expressive-components v0.1.0, and 48 open engineering roles. Postings heavily emphasize Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and distributed systems capabilities. Observational evidence shows active recruitment for developer experience software engineers focused on CI platforms and local development workflows. Hypothesizing from these signals, as Figma expands its polyglot codebase on AWS and Google Cloud, adopting FlowPilot could help streamline CI pipelines and preview environments across their developer platform.

Observations vs. hypotheses (4)

ObservationFigma maintains a polyglot development ecosystem centered around TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Python. F1

Stack at a glance

TypeScript38.3%
Ruby20.5%
JavaScript11.6%
Python10.1%
C6.5%
CSS3.2%
Objective-C2.2%
Other7.6%

Frameworks and libraries

ReactNode.jsTailwind CSSPyTorch

Cloud platforms

AWSGoogle Cloud

Commit activity · 52 weeks

GitHub

GitHub had not finished computing commit statistics for this snapshot.

Public repos: 198
Active 30 d: 8
Active 90 d: 9
Contributors: 91
Releases 90 d: 7

Recent releases

Company sources

Only the domain is required. A confirmed GitHub org, job board and blog feed give better evidence; changes apply on the next refresh.

2Figma operates a polyglot codebase led by TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Python deployed on AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes. F1 F2 F4 F6 F19 F20 F24

3Recent open-source activity includes major updates such as Code Connect v2.0.2 and expressive-components v0.1.0, showing active investment in design-to-code integrations. R1 R2 N1

ObservationFigma leverages cloud-native infrastructure including AWS, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. F19 F20 F24D1

Hypothesis (AI)Figma's open developer experience roles suggest ongoing internal investments in improving CI build performance and local developer tooling. J2 F25 F28 F29

Hypothesis (AI)Figma utilizes polyglot monorepos and distributed architecture for core services. F58 F59

CI/CD & build

GradleGitHub Actions

Data & messaging

PostgreSQLKafkaSnowflake

SaaS & tooling

SalesforceSlack

Architecture signals

Distributed systems

Green = 2+ independent sources · blue = public code or 3+ postings. Full evidence in the Infra tab.

Most recently active repos

rest-api-spec3 days ago
plugin-typings3 days ago
widget-typings4 days ago
mcp-server-guide4 days ago
code-connect5 days ago

Activity score

73/100

Commits (90 d)17/30
69 commits across 0 sampled repos
Repos active (30 d)10/15
8 repositories pushed
Repos active (90 d)6/10
9 repositories pushed
Contributors15/15
91 distinct people in top repos
Releases (90 d)10/15
7 releases
Open engineering roles15/15
48 roles

Very active: 8 repositories updated in 30 days; 69 commits in 90 days across sampled repositories.

Product fit

75/100

Target languages33/40
TypeScript 38.3%, Python 10.1%, Kotlin 1.6% of recently active public code
Target clouds30/30
AWS (high), Google Cloud (medium), Microsoft Azure (low)
Target signals12/30
Kubernetes (low), Terraform (low), GitHub Actions (medium), Monorepo (low)

Against the product profile in Settings.

greenhouse · figma

Job board

open engineering roles of 139(-1 vs previous)

Most relevant roles

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Go · Python · TypeScript · Ruby · Rust · AWS · Google Cloud · Microsoft Azure
Software Engineer - Developer Experience
Go · Python · TypeScript · Ruby · AWS · Buildkite · Bazel · Gradle
Software Engineer - Full Stack
Go · Python · TypeScript · Ruby · C++ · React · PostgreSQL · Snowflake
Software Engineer - Growth & Monetization
Go · Python · TypeScript · Ruby · C++ · React · PostgreSQL · Snowflake
Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure
AWS · Google Cloud · Redis · Elasticsearch · DynamoDB · Kafka · Event-driven architecture · Distributed systems

Technologies named in engineering postings

Confidence: high = 2+ independent sources · medium = public code/config or 3+ job postings · low = a single weak signal. Click a technology for its evidence.

Frameworks and libraries

Reacthigh8 evidenceEvidence
- Confirmed by 3 independent sources (code, jobs, web)
- Found in public code`package.json` in figma/expressive-components declares `react` source · 13 Oct 2026
- Found in public code`package.json` in figma/sds declares `react` source · 7 Oct 2026
- Found in public code`esbuild-react/package.json` in figma/plugin-samples declares `react` source · 23 Mar 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Figma Weave (Tel Aviv, Israel) " posting: "…hip high-quality features across the stack, using technologies like TypeScript, React, Ruby, Go, and more Own key parts of the product that impact user experience, i…" source · 17 Jun 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - C++" posting: "…ills in one or more languages relevant to our frontend such as TypeScript, C++, React, Go, Rust, or Python Experience working with web-based applications, browser pe…" source · 2 Jun 2025
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - AI Product (London, United Kingdom)" posting: "…features or products as a full-stack developer Demonstrated strong fluency with React & Typescript Experience communicating and working across functions to proactive…" source · 2 Jun 2025
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
Node.jshigh2 evidenceEvidence
- Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)
- Found in public codefigma/expressive-components contains `.nvmrc` source · 13 Oct 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Figma Weave (Tel Aviv, Israel) " posting: "…frameworks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL) Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience wor…" source · 17 Jun 2026
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
Tailwind CSSmedium1 evidenceEvidence
- Found in public code or configuration
- Found in public code`package.json` in figma/expressive-components declares `tailwindcss` source · 13 Oct 2026
- First observed 18 Oct 2026
PyTorchmedium3 evidenceEvidence
- Named in 3 engineering job postings
- Mentioned in job posting"PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)" posting: "…demia or industry Experience in Python and machine learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) Experience solving sophisticated problems and comparing alternativ…" source · 5 Oct 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"AI Applied Scientist" posting: "…ironments Experience working on deep learning and generative AI frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, HuggingFace etc Experience training LLMs with Reinforcement Learning tech…" source · 17 Dec 2025
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Machine Learning" posting: "…t, and monitoring. Proficiency in Python and familiarity with ML libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, or XGBoost. Experience designing and bu…" source · 2 Jun 2025
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
TensorFlowlow2 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)" posting: "…industry Experience in Python and machine learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) Experience solving sophisticated problems and comparing alternative solutions,…" source · 5 Oct 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Machine Learning" posting: "…nitoring. Proficiency in Python and familiarity with ML libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, or XGBoost. Experience designing and building scala…" source · 2 Jun 2025
- First observed 11 Oct 2026

Cloud platforms

AWShigh4 evidenceEvidence
- Confirmed by 2 independent sources (jobs, dns)
- Mentioned in job posting"Compliance Engineer" posting: "…nt 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, curi…" source · 16 Oct 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…ency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastruct…" source · 17 Aug 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…ve thousands of engineers Architect and implement large-scale infrastructure on AWS that powers our entire build pipeline to ensure reliability, performance, and c…" source

Containers & orchestration

Envoylow1 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…und in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio). A history of developing complex, realtime distributed systems at scale…" source · 2 Jun 2025
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
Istiolow1 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio). A history of developing complex, realtime distributed systems at scale. A pas…" source

Infrastructure as code

Terraformlow1 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…rkflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI syste…" source · 17 Aug 2026
- First observed 11 Oct 2026

CI/CD & build

Gradlehigh2 evidenceEvidence
- Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)
- Found in public codefigma/code-connect contains `compose/annotations/build.gradle.kts`, `compose/build.gradle.kts`, `compose/plugin/build.gradle.kts` source · 14 Oct 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…per Experience teams Deep expertise in build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle) and operating large-scale monorepos Experience optimizing CI/CD, building deve…" source · 4 Feb 2026
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
GitHub Actionsmedium6 evidenceEvidence

Observability

Datadoglow1 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…feature quality. Own Figma's core observability stack, including platforms like Datadog, ensuring high availability, strong data quality, and a healthy signal-to-noise…" source · 27 Feb 2026
- First observed 11 Oct 2026
OpenTelemetrylow1 evidenceEvidence
- Single weak signal (jobs)
- Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…wer AI products. Fluency with the modern tooling in your area, such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus, or LLM tracing, prompt and model versioning, and eval workflow…"

Data & messaging

PostgreSQLhigh4 evidenceEvidence
- Confirmed by 2 independent sources (jobs, articles)
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Figma Weave (Tel Aviv, Israel) " posting: "…ks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL) Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working effecti…" source · 17 Jun 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Full Stack" posting: "…e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go, C++, PostgreSQL) A product mindset, with the ability to translate user needs into scalable tech…" source · 1 Nov 2025
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…t’s an added plus if you also have: Experience scaling storage platforms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka. Background in…" source

SaaS & tooling

Salesforcemedium3 evidenceEvidence
- Named in 3 engineering job postings
- Mentioned in job posting"Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Tooling" posting: "…forms like Zendesk, Decagon, Sprinklr, Gainsight, Maestro QA/Rippit, Assembled, Salesforce, or similar systems Familiarity with agent assist tooling, AI support chatbots,…" source · 13 Feb 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Full Stack" posting: "…bility platforms (plugins, APIs, widgets) Exposure to technologies like Stripe, Salesforce, Snowflake, SCIM, SAML, or experimentation and observability tooling Experience…" source · 1 Nov 2025
- Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Growth & Monetization" posting: "…rms, or enterprise-scale systems. Familiarity with technologies such as Stripe, Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, SCIM, SAML, or WebAssembly. A background in experimentati…" source

Architecture signals

Distributed systemsmedium3 evidenceEvidence
- Named in 9 engineering job postings
- Mentioned in job posting"Data Platform Engineer" posting: "…building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems Strong software engineering skills (Python or similar), with experience designi…" source · 21 Sept 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…above technical depth before moving into management with deep understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, and the operational challenges of running production in…" source · 3 Jun 2026
- Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…cord of delivering reliable production systems at scale. A strong foundation in distributed systems and a platform mindset: you build systems other teams adopt and rely on, not ju…" source

Engineering blog

Figma deepens investment in India with largest international Config yet
15 Oct 2026
Build by design: New workflows for new ways of building
15 Oct 2026
Design together with code layers on the canvas
15 Oct 2026
Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium
15 Oct 2026
Create, ship, and manage data-backed websites with Payload in Figma
15 Oct 2026

Hacker News

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
775 points · 27 Nov 2025 · discussion
Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code
50 points · 24 Jan 2026 · discussion
Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)
18 points · 11 Jan 2026 · discussion
OpenPencil – AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative
17 points · 2 Mar 2026 · discussion
PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres
15 points · 5 May 2026 · discussion

Web research · Gemini + Google Search

Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium blog
Figma introduced Specs to integrate Markdown technical documentation and product requirements with canvas designs via the Model Context Protocol. · 2026-10
Code Layers in Figma Design announcement
Figma launched Code Layers in open beta, enabling developers to run and inspect code-backed prototypes directly on canvas using GitHub repositories and Payload CMS. · 2026-10
Code Connect 1.5.0 Template API open source
Figma released version 1.5.0 of open-source Code Connect to migrate from legacy framework-specific parsers to a unified template API across React, Swift, Kotlin, and Web Components. · 2026-07
Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline

Hosting / CDN: AWS (NS ns-1657.awsdns-15.co.uk)
Email provider: Google Workspace
SaaS verification records: Microsoft 365GoogleDropboxTwilioNotionPostmanAdobeDocuSignOpenAIAnthropicJamfZoomApple Business1PasswordFigmaAtlassianStripeWizSegment
SPF includes: Google Workspace, Zendesk, mg-spf.greenhouse.io

0 subdomains in unexpired certificates

crt.sh returned HTTP 502 (after 2 attempts)

All changes in v3

“Newly observed” means first seen in public evidence — not newly adopted. “Not re-observed” never means stopped using.

Newly observed
Newly observed: Kotlin
First seen in public evidence (web research (gemini + google search)). This is when it became visible, not necessarily when the company adopted it.
1 Jul 2026
Newly observed
Newly observed: Tailwind CSS
First seen in public evidence (found in public code). This is when it became visible, not necessarily when the company adopted it.
13 Oct 2026
Hiring signal
New technology requirements in job postings: OpenTelemetry
Named in OpenTelemetry (1) current engineering postings, not in the previous snapshot.
18 Oct 2026
Release
New release: figma/code-connect v2.0.2
Published on GitHub since the previous snapshot.
14 Oct 2026
Release
New release: figma/expressive-components v0.1.0
Published on GitHub since the previous snapshot.
13 Oct 2026
New repo
New public repository: figma/expressive-components
Created recently and visible for the first time.
6 Oct 2026
Not re-observed
Not re-observed: Dependabot
Not found in this refresh's evidence. This does not mean the company stopped using it — a posting may have closed or a repository may have left the sample.
18 Oct 2026
Not re-observed
Not re-observed: Okta
Not found in this refresh's evidence. This does not mean the company stopped using it — a posting may have closed or a repository may have left the sample.
18 Oct 2026

Trend across snapshots

Snapshot	Top languages (180 d)	Eng roles	Commits 90 d
v3 · 18 Oct 2026	TypeScript 38.3%, Ruby 20.5%, JavaScript 11.6%	48	69
v2 · 11 Oct 2026	TypeScript 35.8%, Ruby 21.7%, JavaScript 11.3%	49	27
v1 · 11 Oct 2026	TypeScript 35.8%, Ruby 21.7%, JavaScript 11.3%	49	27

Source status · 18 Oct 2026, 07:42 UTC

GitHub · ok · 43.9sfigma: 41 public repositories (GraphQL), 10 scanned in depth; 58 API calls, 3 cached. source
Job postings · ok · 0.7sGreenhouse board "figma": 139 open roles, 48 engineering; 43 technologies mentioned. source
DNS (Google Public DNS) · ok · 0.1s1 hosting/CDN signals, email: Google Workspace, 19 SaaS verification records, 3 SPF includes.
Certificate Transparency (crt.sh) · error · 4.9scrt.sh returned HTTP 502 (after 2 attempts)
Hacker News · ok · 0.7s5 engineering stories in the last 12 months (top: 775 points).
Engineering blog (RSS) · ok · 0.5sFigma Blog | Shortcut: 5 recent posts, 0 technical. source
Web research (Gemini + Google Search) · ok · 43.2s5 grounded findings from 5 Google searches, 10 sources (gemini-3.8-flash).

GitHub identification

figma Provided

GitHub organization provided on the watchlist.

Research confidence · High

GitHub identification	Organization provided on the watchlist	25/25
Code coverage	10 public repositories analyzed	25/25
Source diversity	Code, Job postings, DNS, Articles, Web research	25/25
Recency	Newest evidence dated 2026-10-16	25/25

How confidence is scored

GitHub identification (25): provided or confirmed by website 25 · name match only 8 · none 0
Code coverage (25): ≥8 repositories analyzed 25 · 4–7 18 · 1–3 10 · none 0
Source diversity (25): independent source families with findings (code, job postings, DNS, certificate logs, articles, web research) — 3+ → 25 · 2 → 18 · 1 → 10
Recency (25): newest dated evidence ≤30 days 25 · ≤90 days 18 · ≤1 year 10 · older 4 · none 0
Level: High ≥ 75 · Medium 45–74 · Low < 45. An unconfirmed GitHub match caps the level at Medium; no findings caps it at Low.

Limitations

Public repositories, job postings, DNS records and articles show only part of a company's technology stack; private repositories and internal systems are not visible.
41 most recently updated of 198 public repositories were analysed for languages and activity.

Evidence pack given to Gemini (90 facts)

F1TypeScript [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 26.6% of public code. e.g. 26.6% of code across 37 public repositories (38.3% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/code-connect (14 Oct 2026) source
F2Ruby [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 25.4% of public code. e.g. 25.4% of code across 37 public repositories (20.5% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/sorbet-rails (17 Aug 2026) source
F3JavaScript [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 17.9% of public code. e.g. 17.9% of code across 37 public repositories (11.6% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/Fuse (14 Sept 2026) source
F4Go [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 9.9% of public code. e.g. 9.9% of code across 37 public repositories; largest in figma/terraform-provider-aws-4-49-0 (4 Feb 2026) source
F5Rust [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 6.2% of public code. e.g. 6.2% of code across 37 public repositories; largest in figma/grcov (13 Oct 2026)

DNS recordNameserver ns-1657.awsdns-15.co.uk source

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Google Cloudmedium3 evidenceEvidence

Named in 3 engineering job postings
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar) Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storag…" source · 12 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Marketing Engineer" posting: "…reverse ETL workflows Query data using SQL across warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery, with light scripting in Python or TypeScript for integration prototyping Lead…" source · 5 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…ency, and eventual convergence. Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration. Proficiency in…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Microsoft Azurelow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…d eventual convergence. Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration. Proficiency in languages…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Kuberneteslow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…e, isolation, and failure recovery Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes…" source · 17 Aug 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Found in public code or configuration
Found in public codefigma/plugin-typings contains `.github/workflows/test.yml` source · 16 Oct 2026
Found in public codefigma/widget-typings contains `.github/workflows/test.yml` source · 15 Oct 2026
Found in public codefigma/code-connect contains `.github/workflows/finalize.yml`, `.github/workflows/release.yml` source · 14 Oct 2026
Found in public codefigma/expressive-components contains `.github/workflows/checks.yml`, `.github/workflows/finalize.yml`, `.github/workflows/release.yml` source · 13 Oct 2026
Found in public codefigma/sds contains `.github/workflows/main.yml` source · 7 Oct 2026
Found in public codefigma/variables-github-action-example contains `.github/workflows/sync-figma-to-tokens.yml`, `.github/workflows/sync-tokens-to-figma.yml`, `.github/workflows/test.yml` source · 8 Mar 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Bazellow2 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…kground in developer experience platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments Experience building evaluation…" source · 3 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…Platform, or Developer Experience teams Deep expertise in build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle) and operating large-scale monorepos Experience optimizing…" source · 4 Feb 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Buildkitelow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…rformance distributed systems Hands-on experience with AWS, CI platforms (e.g., Buildkite), Infrastructure as Code, and strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Typ…" source · 4 Feb 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Prometheuslow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…uency with the modern tooling in your area, such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus, or LLM tracing, prompt and model versioning, and eval workflows. A high operat…" source · 27 Feb 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Mentioned in published articleHacker News story "PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres" (15 points) source · 5 May 2026

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Kafkamedium3 evidenceEvidence

Named in 3 engineering job postings
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs,…" source · 12 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…rtise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster. Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in fa…" source · 2 Jun 2025
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…forms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka. Background in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologie…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Snowflakemedium3 evidenceEvidence

Named in 6 engineering job postings
Mentioned in job posting"Security Scientist" posting: "…tributed data processing systems and frameworks such as Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, or Spark Strong knowledge of statistical methods and experimental design Excel…" source · 9 Sept 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Marketing Engineer" posting: "…Census) with reverse ETL workflows Query data using SQL across warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery, with light scripting in Python or TypeScript for integration proto…" source · 5 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Data Scientist " posting: "…R, along with experience working with distributed data systems (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, Presto, Hive, Spark) Strong foundation in statistical methods, experimentation…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

DynamoDBlow2 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…) Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with…" source · 12 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…you also have: Experience scaling storage platforms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka. Background in traffic management, D…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Redislow2 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…ertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to r…" source · 12 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…ed plus if you also have: Experience scaling storage platforms (e.g., Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB) or operating streaming systems like Kafka. Background in traffic…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Airflowlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…atch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster. Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in fast-paced env…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Amazon SQSlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…kpressure, isolation, and failure recovery Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kub…" source · 17 Aug 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Apache Flinklow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…ng expertise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster. Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solvin…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

BigQuerylow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Marketing Engineer" posting: "…reverse ETL workflows Query data using SQL across warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery, with light scripting in Python or TypeScript for integration prototyping Lead…" source · 5 Jun 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

dbtlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…: Familiarity with our stack, including Golang, Python, SQL, frameworks such as dbt, and technologies like Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Dagster. Experience buildin…" source · 2 Jun 2025
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Elasticsearchlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…frastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-leve…" source · 12 Jun 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Slackmedium3 evidenceEvidence

Named in 3 engineering job postings
Mentioned in job posting"Product Manager, Developer Platform" posting: "…: Figma’s MCP Server, REST API, and key first-party integrations like Figma for Slack and Figma for ChatGPT/for Claude. These roles sit at the intersection of produc…" source · 10 Jul 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…auto-fixing and AI-assisted code review to background cloud agents that turn a Slack message into a pull request, this team owns the systems that are transforming h…" source · 3 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Tooling" posting: "…vability, or monitoring AI workflows in production Experience building internal Slack tooling, workflow automations, or embedded support experiences Background in Su…" source · 13 Feb 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Google Workspacelow2 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordMX → aspmx2.googlemail.com source
DNS recordSPF include:_spf.google.com (Google Workspace) source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Adobelow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Adobe source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Apple Businesslow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Apple Business source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Atlassianlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Atlassian source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

DocuSignlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for DocuSign source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Figmalow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Figma source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Microsoft 365low1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Microsoft 365 source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Notionlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Notion source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Stripelow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Stripe source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Twiliolow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Twilio source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Zendesklow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordSPF include:mail.zendesk.com (Zendesk) source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Zoomlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (dns)
DNS recordTXT verification record for Zoom source
First observed 11 Oct 2026

First observed 11 Oct 2026

Monorepolow2 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-gener…" source · 3 Jun 2026
Mentioned in job posting"Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…ion quickly and safely. We build and operate core platforms across our polyglot monorepo, including build systems, artifact repositories, merge queues, test frameworks,…" source · 4 Feb 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Event-driven architecturelow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…onents - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectu…" source · 12 Jun 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Platform engineeringlow1 evidenceEvidence

Single weak signal (jobs)
Mentioned in job posting"Product Manager, Developer Platform" posting: "Product Manager, Developer Platform. Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to…" source · 10 Jul 2026
First observed 11 Oct 2026

Figma launched timeline animation tooling natively on the canvas with export options for CSS, JSON, React code, and WebM. · 2026-06

From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs blog

Figma documented an engineering workflow using Anthropic's Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol to translate web code into editable canvas components. · 2026-02

GitHub was still computing commit statistics, so commits were counted directly (capped at 100 per repository) and the 52-week chart is unavailable.

Certificate Transparency (crt.sh) did not respond in time; subdomain tooling was not checked this run.

Public code repositories and job postings reflect only a portion of Figma's private internal engineering stack.

Commit activity was directly sampled across public repositories due to pending GitHub 52-week API statistics.

Certificate Transparency data was unavailable due to an external service error during data collection.

F6Python [Programming languages] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)), 3.4% of public code. e.g. 3.4% of code across 37 public repositories (10.1% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/mcp-server-guide (16 Oct 2026) source

F7HTML [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Found in public code or configuration), 3.3% of public code. e.g. 3.3% of code across 37 public repositories (0.1% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/plugin-samples (23 Mar 2026) source

F8C [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Found in public code or configuration), 2.3% of public code. e.g. 2.3% of code across 37 public repositories (6.5% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/debase (1 Jun 2026) source

F9CSS [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Found in public code or configuration), 1.6% of public code. e.g. 1.6% of code across 37 public repositories (3.2% in repos pushed in the last 180 days); largest in figma/sds (7 Oct 2026) source

F10Kotlin [Programming languages] — low confidence (Single weak signal (web)), 0.5% of public code. e.g. Web research: "Code Connect 1.5.0 Template API" — Figma released version 1.5.0 of open-source Code Connect to migrate from legacy framework-specific parsers to a unified template API across React, Swift, Kotlin (1 Jul 2026) source

F11C++ [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Named in 9 engineering job postings), 0% of public code. e.g. "PhD Intern, Software Engineer - Graphics (2027)" posting: "…r languages (GLSL, WGSL) or other low-level graphics APIs Proficiency in either C++ or Rust A track record of rigorous problem-solving through academic or applied…" (13 Oct 2026) source

F12Java [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings), 0% of public code. e.g. "Software Engineer Intern (London, United Kingdom) (Summer 2027) " posting: "…an 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 algorit…" (14 Sept 2026) source

F13SQL [Programming languages] — medium confidence (Named in 8 engineering job postings). e.g. "Data Engineer Intern (2027)" posting: "…you if you have: Experience coding in Python or a similar language and writing SQL queries Experience building or working with data pipelines, ETL, or large datas…" (23 Sept 2026) source

F14React [Frameworks and libraries] — high confidence (Confirmed by 3 independent sources (code, jobs, web)). e.g. `package.json` in figma/expressive-components declares `react` (13 Oct 2026) source

F15Node.js [Frameworks and libraries] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)). e.g. figma/expressive-components contains `.nvmrc` (13 Oct 2026) source

F16Tailwind CSS [Frameworks and libraries] — medium confidence (Found in public code or configuration). e.g. `package.json` in figma/expressive-components declares `tailwindcss` (13 Oct 2026) source

F17PyTorch [Frameworks and libraries] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings). e.g. "PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)" posting: "…demia or industry Experience in Python and machine learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) Experience solving sophisticated problems and comparing alternativ…" (5 Oct 2026) source

F18TensorFlow [Frameworks and libraries] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)" posting: "…industry Experience in Python and machine learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) Experience solving sophisticated problems and comparing alternative solutions,…" (5 Oct 2026) source

F19AWS [Cloud platforms] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (jobs, dns)). e.g. "Compliance Engineer" posting: "…nt 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, curi…" (16 Oct 2026) source

F20Google Cloud [Cloud platforms] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar) Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storag…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F21Microsoft Azure [Cloud platforms] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…d eventual convergence. Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration. Proficiency in languages…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F22Envoy [Containers & orchestration] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…und in traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio). A history of developing complex, realtime distributed systems at scale…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F23Istio [Containers & orchestration] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" posting: "…traffic management, DDoS mitigation, or service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio). A history of developing complex, realtime distributed systems at scale. A pas…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F24Kubernetes [Containers & orchestration] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…e, isolation, and failure recovery Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes…" (17 Aug 2026) source

F25Terraform [Infrastructure as code] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…rkflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI syste…" (17 Aug 2026) source

F26Gradle [CI/CD & build] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (code, jobs)). e.g. figma/code-connect contains `compose/annotations/build.gradle.kts`, `compose/build.gradle.kts`, `compose/plugin/build.gradle.kts` (14 Oct 2026) source

F27GitHub Actions [CI/CD & build] — medium confidence (Found in public code or configuration). e.g. figma/plugin-typings contains `.github/workflows/test.yml` (16 Oct 2026) source

F28Bazel [CI/CD & build] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…kground in developer experience platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments Experience building evaluation…" (3 Jun 2026) source

F29Buildkite [CI/CD & build] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Developer Experience" posting: "…rformance distributed systems Hands-on experience with AWS, CI platforms (e.g., Buildkite), Infrastructure as Code, and strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Typ…" (4 Feb 2026) source

F30Datadog [Observability] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…feature quality. Own Figma's core observability stack, including platforms like Datadog, ensuring high availability, strong data quality, and a healthy signal-to-noise…" (27 Feb 2026) source

F31OpenTelemetry [Observability] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…wer AI products. Fluency with the modern tooling in your area, such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus, or LLM tracing, prompt and model versioning, and eval workflow…" (27 Feb 2026) source

F32Prometheus [Observability] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Manager, Software Engineering - AI Observability" posting: "…uency with the modern tooling in your area, such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus, or LLM tracing, prompt and model versioning, and eval workflows. A high operat…" (27 Feb 2026) source

F33PostgreSQL [Data & messaging] — high confidence (Confirmed by 2 independent sources (jobs, articles)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Figma Weave (Tel Aviv, Israel) " posting: "…ks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL) Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working effecti…" (17 Jun 2026) source

F34Kafka [Data & messaging] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs,…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F35Snowflake [Data & messaging] — medium confidence (Named in 6 engineering job postings). e.g. "Security Scientist" posting: "…tributed data processing systems and frameworks such as Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, or Spark Strong knowledge of statistical methods and experimental design Excel…" (9 Sept 2026) source

F36DynamoDB [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…) Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F37Redis [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…ertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to r…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F38Airflow [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…atch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster. Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solving in fast-paced env…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F39Amazon SQS [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Application Platform" posting: "…kpressure, isolation, and failure recovery Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kub…" (17 Aug 2026) source

F40Apache Flink [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…ng expertise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow/Dagster. Proven track record of impact-driven problem-solvin…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F41BigQuery [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Marketing Engineer" posting: "…reverse ETL workflows Query data using SQL across warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery, with light scripting in Python or TypeScript for integration prototyping Lead…" (5 Jun 2026) source

F42dbt [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure" posting: "…: Familiarity with our stack, including Golang, Python, SQL, frameworks such as dbt, and technologies like Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Dagster. Experience buildin…" (2 Jun 2025) source

F43Elasticsearch [Data & messaging] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…frastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-leve…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F44Salesforce [SaaS & tooling] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings). e.g. "Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Tooling" posting: "…forms like Zendesk, Decagon, Sprinklr, Gainsight, Maestro QA/Rippit, Assembled, Salesforce, or similar systems Familiarity with agent assist tooling, AI support chatbots,…" (13 Feb 2026) source

F45Slack [SaaS & tooling] — medium confidence (Named in 3 engineering job postings). e.g. "Product Manager, Developer Platform" posting: "…: Figma’s MCP Server, REST API, and key first-party integrations like Figma for Slack and Figma for ChatGPT/for Claude. These roles sit at the intersection of produc…" (10 Jul 2026) source

F46Google Workspace [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. MX → aspmx2.googlemail.com source

F47Adobe [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Adobe source

F48Apple Business [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Apple Business source

F49Atlassian [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Atlassian source

F50DocuSign [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for DocuSign source

F51Figma [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Figma source

F52Microsoft 365 [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Microsoft 365 source

F53Notion [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Notion source

F54Stripe [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Stripe source

F55Twilio [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Twilio source

F56Zendesk [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. SPF include:mail.zendesk.com (Zendesk) source

F57Zoom [SaaS & tooling] — low confidence (Single weak signal (dns)). e.g. TXT verification record for Zoom source

F58Distributed systems [Architecture signals] — medium confidence (Named in 9 engineering job postings). e.g. "Data Platform Engineer" posting: "…building and operating production data platforms, developer infrastructure, or distributed systems Strong software engineering skills (Python or similar), with experience designi…" (21 Sept 2026) source

F59Monorepo [Architecture signals] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools" posting: "…platforms including CI/CD systems, build tools (Bazel/Blaze), or large polyglot monorepo environments Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-gener…" (3 Jun 2026) source

F60Event-driven architecture [Architecture signals] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" posting: "…onents - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectu…" (12 Jun 2026) source

F61Platform engineering [Architecture signals] — low confidence (Single weak signal (jobs)). e.g. "Product Manager, Developer Platform" posting: "Product Manager, Developer Platform. Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to…" (10 Jul 2026) source

M1GitHub activity Very active; activity score 73/100 (previous snapshot 69). 8 repos pushed in 30 days, 9 in 90 days; 69 commits in 90 days across 0 sampled repos; 91 contributors; 7 releases in 90 days. (16 Oct 2026) source

M2Recently active repository figma/rest-api-spec (last push 2026-10-16) (16 Oct 2026) source

M3Recently active repository figma/plugin-typings (last push 2026-10-16) (16 Oct 2026) source

M4Recently active repository figma/widget-typings (last push 2026-10-15) (15 Oct 2026) source

R1Release v2.0.2 of figma/code-connect published 2026-10-14 (14 Oct 2026) source

R2Release v0.1.0 of figma/expressive-components published 2026-10-13 (13 Oct 2026) source

R3Release v2.0.1 of figma/code-connect published 2026-09-10 (10 Sept 2026) source

R4Release v2.0.0 of figma/code-connect published 2026-08-18 (18 Aug 2026) source

R5Release v1.5.3 of figma/code-connect published 2026-08-12 (12 Aug 2026) source

R6Release v1.5.2 of figma/code-connect published 2026-08-03 (3 Aug 2026) source

N1New public repository figma/expressive-components created 2026-10-06 (6 Oct 2026) source

H148 open engineering roles of 139 total on greenhouse (previous snapshot: 49). Most-mentioned technologies: Python (23), TypeScript (11), C++ (9), Distributed systems (9), Go (9), Ruby (8), SQL (8), React (6). source

J1Open role "Software Engineer - Distributed Systems" (Engineering) mentioning Go, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Rust, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure source

J2Open role "Software Engineer - Developer Experience" (Engineering) mentioning Go, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, AWS, Buildkite, Bazel, Gradle source

J3Open role "Software Engineer - Full Stack" (Engineering) mentioning Go, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, C++, React, PostgreSQL, Snowflake source

J4Open role "Software Engineer - Growth & Monetization" (Engineering) mentioning Go, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, C++, React, PostgreSQL, Snowflake source

J5Open role "Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure" (Engineering) mentioning AWS, Google Cloud, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Kafka, Event-driven architecture, Distributed systems source

D1DNS hosting/CDN: AWS (NS ns-1657.awsdns-15.co.uk)

D2Email: Google Workspace. SaaS verification records: Microsoft 365, Google, Dropbox, Twilio, Notion, Postman, Adobe, DocuSign, OpenAI, Anthropic, Jamf, Zoom, Apple Business, 1Password, Figma, Atlassian, Stripe, Wiz, Segment.

A1“Penpot: The Open-Source Figma” (Hacker News, 775 points) (27 Nov 2025) source

A2“Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code” (Hacker News, 50 points) (24 Jan 2026) source

A3“Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)” (Hacker News, 18 points) (11 Jan 2026) source

A4“OpenPencil – AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative” (Hacker News, 17 points) (2 Mar 2026) source

A5“PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres” (Hacker News, 15 points) (5 May 2026) source

W1Web research (blog): “Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium” — Figma introduced Specs to integrate Markdown technical documentation and product requirements with canvas designs via the Model Context Protocol. (1 Oct 2026) source

W2Web research (announcement): “Code Layers in Figma Design” — Figma launched Code Layers in open beta, enabling developers to run and inspect code-backed prototypes directly on canvas using GitHub repositories and Payload CMS. (1 Oct 2026) source

W3Web research (open_source): “Code Connect 1.5.0 Template API” — Figma released version 1.5.0 of open-source Code Connect to migrate from legacy framework-specific parsers to a unified template API across React, Swift, Kotlin, and Web Components. (1 Jul 2026) source

W4Web research (blog): “Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline” — Figma launched timeline animation tooling natively on the canvas with export options for CSS, JSON, React code, and WebM. (1 Jun 2026) source

W5Web research (blog): “From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs” — Figma documented an engineering workflow using Anthropic's Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol to translate web code into editable canvas components. (1 Feb 2026) source

Figma

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greenhouse · figma

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