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Staff Software Engineer - Backend
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About The Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high‑performance platform on the modern data architecture. We are growing our engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities across our stack, and build world‑class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users.
What You Will Be Doing
Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis.
Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes.
Build backend distributed services, new algorithms, and modern APIs to support a cloud application.
Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues.
Design and implement new software features to support our fast‑growing user base.
Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices among available technologies.
Qualifications We Need
5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high‑quality software.
Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment.
Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership of your work.
Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at Sigma.
Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!)
Data‑driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems.
Data model design, and API development experience.
SQL query optimization and database internals.
Administration of cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure).
Prior experience working at a high‑growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success.
Additional Job Details The base salary range for this position is $240k – $270k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Sigma. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
About Us Sigma is a cloud analytics and business intelligence tool that empowers business teams to break free from dashboards, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award‑winning software capitalizes on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet‑like interface – no coding required.
Benefits For Our Full‑Time Employees
Equity.
Generous health benefits.
Flexible time off policy – take the time off you need.
Paid bonding time for all new parents.
Traditional and Roth 401(k).
Commuter and FSA benefits.
Lunch Program.
Dog‑friendly office.
Sigma Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a smart and strong team regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender or gender identity, or veteran status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.
Note: We have an in‑office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, and London.
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Staff Software Engineer - Backend
role at Sigma.
About The Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high‑performance platform on the modern data architecture. We are growing our engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities across our stack, and build world‑class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users.
What You Will Be Doing
Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis.
Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes.
Build backend distributed services, new algorithms, and modern APIs to support a cloud application.
Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues.
Design and implement new software features to support our fast‑growing user base.
Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices among available technologies.
Qualifications We Need
5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high‑quality software.
Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment.
Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership of your work.
Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at Sigma.
Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!)
Data‑driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems.
Data model design, and API development experience.
SQL query optimization and database internals.
Administration of cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure).
Prior experience working at a high‑growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success.
Additional Job Details The base salary range for this position is $240k – $270k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Sigma. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
About Us Sigma is a cloud analytics and business intelligence tool that empowers business teams to break free from dashboards, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award‑winning software capitalizes on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet‑like interface – no coding required.
Benefits For Our Full‑Time Employees
Equity.
Generous health benefits.
Flexible time off policy – take the time off you need.
Paid bonding time for all new parents.
Traditional and Roth 401(k).
Commuter and FSA benefits.
Lunch Program.
Dog‑friendly office.
Sigma Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a smart and strong team regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender or gender identity, or veteran status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.
Note: We have an in‑office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, and London.
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