Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Sigma Computing Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Sigma Computing Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to enhance its high-performance platform in cloud analytics. The successful candidate will join a collaborative engineering team, tackling challenging problems and building innovative solutions, ultimately improving data accessibility for users. This role promises growth opportunities in an engaging work environment.

Benefits

Equity

Generous health benefits

Flexible time off policy

Paid bonding time for all new parents

Traditional and Roth 401k

Commuter and FSA benefits

Lunch Program

Dog friendly office

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building high-quality software.
• Experience with robust web applications in a continuous deployment setup.
• Strong craftsmanship and curiosity towards problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenges in providing interactive experiences on data warehouses.
• Build backend distributed services and modern APIs for cloud applications.
• Design and implement new software features to support user growth.

Skills

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Rust

Go

GraphQL

Node.js

Kubernetes

Job description

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About The Role

Sigma is transforming how

About The Role

Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to 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 API to support a cloud application
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve 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 amongst available technologies
  
  
  

Qualifications We Need

• 5+ years 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 towards 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
• Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success
  
  
  

Additional Job Details

The base salary range for this position is $150k - $220k 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 Computing. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

About Us

Sigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize 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.

Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment.

Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth.

Come join us!

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 401k
• 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, gender identity or expression, 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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