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Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Sigma Computing

$240,000 - $270,000
Jul 5, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US
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Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. The company is growing its engineering team to solve challenging problems and deliver impactful capabilities throughout its stack to build world-class technology. The goal is to make data easily accessible for all users.

Requirements

  • 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software
  • Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals
  • 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)

Responsibilities

  • 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

Other

  • 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
  • Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success
  • 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 Computing.
  • This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
  • 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.