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Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

About the Role

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.

About us:

Sigma is the AI Apps and agentic analytics platform built on the cloud data warehouse. Business and technical teams use Sigma to explore live data, build intelligent applications, and automate critical workflows all without moving data or breaking governance. Sigma supports a spreadsheet interface, SQL, Python, and native AI in a single governed workspace, giving every team the speed to act and IT the control to scale. Sigma is trusted by more than 2,000 customers, including AMD, Duolingo, Colgate-Palmolive, and JPMorgan Chase.

Sigma announced its $80M in Series E financing in May 2026. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures participating alongside returning investors Altimeter Capital, Avenir Growth Capital, D1 Capital Partners, K5 Global, NewView Capital, Spark Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, and XN. This milestone follows Sigma reaching $200M in annual recurring revenue in April 2026, with more than 100% year-over-year growth and 1.1 million new active users added in the latest fiscal year.

Come join us!

Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees:

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 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.

Note: We have an in-office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, London and Sydney. All roles have a 25% travel expectation unless explicitly stated otherwise.

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This hiring process utilizes artificial intelligence tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement, not replace, human decision-making.