Sigma Computing
Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability
$170K–$240K
New York City, NY +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years industry experience.
About the job
Build and maintain observability and reliability tools and processes that help Sigma’s engineering teams monitor services, troubleshoot cloud issues, and minimize downtime.
What you'll do
- Build observability capabilities for metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and application performance management.
- Participate in on-call rotation, support service uptime, and create runtime tools and processes to improve cloud triage and reduce downtime.
- Define measurement best practices and collaborate on designs and code reviews; the role involves coding most of the time.
What they ask for
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software used by other engineers.
- Product mindset toward infrastructure systems and a desire to enable others.
- Strong craftsmanship and academic curiosity; collaborative teammate.
Nice to have
- Experience building systems for data analytics; distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills.
- Knowledge of cloud application security models; experience administering GCP, AWS, or Azure infrastructure; startup experience.
Pay
USD $170k - $240k annually (base salary)
Tools
Go, Open Telemetry, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure
AI focus
The hiring process uses AI tools to assist with candidate screening and assessment; the role’s engineering work does not specify AI responsibilities.
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