Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Company: Sigma Computing
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $240,000 - $270,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-03-20
About this role
#### About the Role
Sigma is transforminghow 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
- 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
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
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