Staff Software Engineer

Sigma Computing

Location:
United States, New York City

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

240000.00 - 270000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

10+ 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

Nice to have:

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

What we offer:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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