Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Sigma Computing3 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Solve challenging problems involved in providing interactive data warehouse experiences for data exploration and analysis
- Build backend distributed services, algorithms, and APIs for a cloud application
- Design and implement software features for a growing user base
- Triage, debug, track, and resolve product or system issues
- Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews
Requirements
- At least 10 years of industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software
- Experience building and deploying robust, secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Experience with data modeling and API development
- Experience solving distributed systems problems using data-driven approaches
- Experience with SQL query optimization and database internals
- Experience administering cloud service infrastructure, including GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Prior experience solving technical problems at a high-growth company is preferred
Benefits
- Equity and comprehensive 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
- In-office work environment in offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, and Sydney
Tech Stack
Categories
About Sigma Computing
Sigma Computing builds an AI apps and analytics platform that runs directly on cloud data warehouses for business and technical teams to explore live data, build apps, and automate workflows. It’s delivered as SaaS with spreadsheet, SQL, and Python interfaces for governed reporting, embedded analytics, and data applications. Privately held in San Francisco, it serves customers like JPMorgan Chase and Colgate-Palmolive and raised a Series E round in May 2026.