Senior Backend Software Engineer, Sigma Computing
$150-220k
Plus equity
Business intelligence software solutions
Open for applications
Business intelligence software solutions
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-220k
Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make the best possible decisions at every turn by removing the barriers that prevent people from analyzing data across sources and delivering the full spectrum of self-service cloud analytics and business intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software
- Experience building and deploying robust and secure web APIs
- Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work
- Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity
Desirable
- Experience building systems for data analytics
- Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills
- Knowledge of cloud application security models
- SQL query optimization and database internals
- Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
- Startup experience
What the job involves
- Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis
- Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, and Kubernetes
- Build infrastructure to support a modern cloud application
- Develop new algorithms and techniques for improving the performance and interactivity of our multi-tenant cloud application
- Design and implement new technologies and features to support our fast growing user base
- Collaborate with cross-functional groups - backend, frontend, design, product, customer support, sales and marketing to build an innovative product
Our take
Sigma Computing is cloud analytics and business intelligence solution that provides live access to cloud data warehouses using an intuitive spreadsheet interface, allowing customers to analyze data and make insight-driven decisions in a matter of moments, not weeks. The company’s unique architecture of expanding data improves both performance and security by exclusively retaining data in cloud warehouses like Snowflake.
The company boasts more than 220 enterprise customers, including US Foods, Blackstone, and Athenahealth, who rely on Sigma Computing to make confident data-driven decisions. The company’s iterative and community-driven approach to A&BI frees data experts to focus on more innovative, fulfilling initiatives.
The company’s impressive funding rounds, co-led by D1 Capital Partners and XN, with support from exciting investors including Snowflake Ventures, Sigma Computing aims to continue to rapidly scale and democratize data analytics for organizations of all sizes.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Dec 2021
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $566.3m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible Vacation
- Flexible Schedule
- Access to Health & Wellness Partners
- Parental Leave
Company values
- Assume Best Intent - We seek multiple perspectives to better understand where others are coming from, including our customers, partners, and each other
- Communicate Freely - We speak up when we have questions or ideas. We explain why decisions were made and are always open and honest with each other
- Be Curious & Constructive - We are curious about the world around us and want to dig into data to find our own answers and enable our customers to do the same!
- Be Smarter Together - We are greater together than the sum of our parts
- Aim for Greatness - We believe that failing at something great is better than succeeding at something mediocre
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rob Woollen
(CTO)Previous Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Served as CTO & SVP (Platform Product Management) at Work.com. Worked as a Chief Architect at BEA Systems and was a Software Engineer at HP.
Jason Frantz
(Chief Architect)Previously served at the CTO at Sigma Computing. Previous Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Worked as a Software Architect at MapR Technologies, previous Software Engineer at both Clustrix and Agami Systems.
Mike Speiser
(Board of Directors)Founding Investor & Board Member of Snowflake, Sila Nanotechnologies Inc., Lancework, Clumio, Observe Inc., Ghost, Luminary Cloud, Transposit, Stealth, and Pure Storage (previous Board Member). Co-Founder of Epinions.com. Previous VP of Community Products at Yahoo, and VP of Product Management & Product Marketing at Symantec.
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