Staff Software Engineer - Backend

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 $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.