Case Study: Figma orchestrates infrastructure at scale with Spacelift

Figma cuts S3 provisioning from 6 pull requests to 1 with Spacelift

Figma, a collaborative design software company with approximately 600 engineers, faced significant scaling challenges with its infrastructure orchestration on AWS. Using Terraform and OpenTofu, their ad hoc workflows led to massive state files, long deployment queues, and frustrating delays for developers. They needed a tool to bring structure and visibility to their workflows without increasing the operational burden on their platform teams, which led them to adopt Spacelift.

Spacelift provided Figma with a centralized orchestration layer that integrated deeply with their CI. The solution brought visibility into the deployment process and enabled safe, structured rollouts. This bought Figma time to refactor deeply coupled code while prioritizing higher-impact work. One measurable impact was reducing S3 bucket provisioning from a multi-day, six-pull-request process to a single, fire-and-forget pull request. Spacelift enabled Figma to support hundreds of engineers and continue improving its developer experience.

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