Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Sigma Computing Sigma Computing · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Sigma Computing is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to build backend distributed services, new algorithms, and modern APIs for their AI apps and analytics platform. The role involves solving complex problems in providing interactive experiences on data warehouses and supporting a cloud application. The company emphasizes modern tools like Rust, Go, and Kubernetes, and is looking for experienced engineers to contribute to their fast-growing user base and world-class technology.

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

  • 5+ 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