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Sigma Computing

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

$240K–$270K

San Francisco, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026

Location
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States
Experience
5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software.

About the job

Builds backend distributed services, algorithms, and APIs for Sigma’s cloud application, supporting interactive data exploration and analysis on data warehouses.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain backend distributed services, algorithms, and APIs.
  • Design and implement software features, and triage and resolve product or system issues.
  • Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software.
  • Experience building and deploying robust, secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment.
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals.

Nice to have

  • Data model design and API development experience; SQL query optimization and database internals.
  • Cloud service infrastructure experience (GCP, AWS, Azure) or experience at a high-growth company.

Pay

$240k - $270k annually (base salary)

Tools

Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)