Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

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

Additional Job details

The base salary range for this position is $170k - $215k 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 only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface – no coding required.

Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment.

Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth.

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 Computing 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, or veteran 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, and London.