Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Sigma Computing Sigma Computing · Data AI · New York, NY · Engineering

Senior Software Engineer - Backend role at Sigma Computing, a company providing an AI apps and analytics platform connected to cloud data warehouses. The role focuses on building backend distributed services, algorithms, and APIs for a cloud application, with responsibilities including solving data warehousing challenges, developing with modern tools like Rust and Go, and collaborating on feature implementation. The company mentions using AI tools in its hiring process and its platform's native AI capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis
  2. Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes
  3. Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application
  4. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues
  5. Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base

Skills

Required

  • 2+ 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

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