Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

Sigma; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous health benefits

Flexible time off policy

Paid bonding time for new parents

Traditional and Roth 401(k)

Commuter and FSA benefits

Lunch program

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Sigma is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for observability and reliability in San Francisco. The role involves building observability tools, participating in on-call rotations, and ensuring the uptime of services. Candidates should have strong software development experience, ideally with 5+ years in the industry, and a commitment to collaboration and product mindset.

This position offers a competitive salary ranging from $170k to $240k annually, along with stock options and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals are essential.
• 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining high-quality software.
• A product mindset is valuable when working on infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities

• Build observability tools and platforms for metrics, logging, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through code reviews.

Skills

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

5+ years industry experience

Product mindset application

Desire to be a great teammate

Strong sense of craftsmanship

Tools

Go

Open Telemetry

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world‑class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible.

What You Will Be Doing

• Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management
• Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes
• Participate in on‑call rotation and ensure uptime of services
• Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time

Qualifications We Need

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high‑quality software, especially software other engineers use
• You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others
• Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work
• Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity

Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!)

• Experience building systems for data analytics
• Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills
• Knowledge of cloud application security models
• Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Startup experience

Additional Job Details

The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k 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.

We have an in‑office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, London and Sydney.

Benefits For Our Full‑Time Employees

• Equity
• Generous health benefits
• Flexible time off policy
• Paid bonding time for all new parents
• Traditional and Roth 401(k)
• Commuter and FSA benefits
• Lunch program
• Dog‑friendly office

Sigma 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, veteran, or any other protected status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.