Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

New York City, NY

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.

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.

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