Software Engineering, Sigma Computing
Intern (Summer 2026)
$50.00 per hour + Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Business intelligence software solutions
Open for applications
Business intelligence software solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$50.00 per hour + Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
1001+ 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
- Current student:
- Applicants must be currently enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate degree program in the U.S with a graduation date of December 2026 or later
- Able to intern from June 2026 through August/ early September 2026 (dates flexible)
- Authorization:
- You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2026 program
- Visa sponsorship is not available for our internship positions, but we welcome applicants on a student visa (with authorization to work in the U.S.) to apply
- Location:
- Our internships are in-person and located primarily within San Francisco, CA. We do have a small amount of internships available in our New York City, NY office. Relocation assistance will be provided for students who will need to relocate for the Summer in the form of a relocation bonus
- Applicants must be able to work in-person in our office in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY for the duration of their internship
- Applicants must be pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Have an intermediate to advanced grasp of Operating Systems, Data structures, algorithms and at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, etc
- Excited to learn and build complex user interfaces, data visualizations, or backend systems
- Solid project management and communication abilities. You love to find the right resources and can own tasks end to end with minimal supervision
- Have a drive and desire to navigate unknowns, after all, that’s what unlocks realizations
- Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment
- Able to commit 40 hrs a week for 12 weeks in-person in our San Francisco, CA office
- Ready to start work full-time by either January 2026 or June 2026 (preferred)
What the job involves
- Sigma unlocks the value of data by delivering cloud-scale analytics and business intelligence with the simplicity of a spreadsheet, complete with pivot tables and dashboards. We empower business professionals and data teams to quickly explore, analyze, visualize, and collaborate, leveraging all of their data across the organization
- Sigma’s Early Career Program is the launchpad for the next generation of engineers and innovators. As an Intern at Sigma, you’ll work on various production features and learn efficient engineering for large scalable systems. Our interns work directly with our engineers, product leaders, and designers across the organization everyday. We’re looking for students who bring curiosity, a spirit for collaboration, and a desire for shaping the future of business insights and data exploration
- Sigma’s Engineering organization is a dynamic, high performing team of Software Engineers who complement each other's skills. Our Engineers design, implement, and scale technical solutions that power our core product and enable our users to make data driven decisions in their businesses.
- As a Software Engineering Intern, you will experiment, prototype, and implement features that help our global user base analyze and gather insights from their data. During your internship, you’ll partner directly with your engineering mentor, as well as collaborate with other teams across the business.
- From Product Designers, Product Managers, Sales, and, of course, actual users, you will collaborate across the company to determine the best solution for your technical challenge. Interns will take their project from ideation through implementation, iterating and gathering feedback along the way.
- As an intern, you will deploy features and gather insights from customer metrics to aid you in making better development decisions and improve your business acumen
- Learn how to build production software and understand how large Single Page Applications are built and extended with the user experience top of mind
- Experience how backend scales to handle multiple customers and billions of data points while keeping user information secure
- Gain an understanding of how to own a development project from beginning to end
- Develop automated unit tests to get the relevant code coverage and work with product owners and techpubs to document your work
- Partner with other Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers
- Design and deliver innovative solutions to improve the Sigma user experience by implementing new features into our product
- Find new ways to optimize the performance of one or more components of the product
Our take
Sigma Computing is a 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 1,000 enterprise customers, including Doordash, Duolingo, Blackstone, and Workday, 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.
Sigma Computing's inclusion in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence, combines with $100M ARR and 10x growth over three years, really underscores its market momentum and investor confidence. With repeated recognition from Snowflake and Databricks as Business Intelligence Partner of the Year, Sigma is clearly delivering powerful analytic solutions and is certainly ready for continued growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Dec 2021
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $566.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive pay: Competitive salaries aligned with market rates—because we value your experience and contributions.
- Flexible Schedule: Work in the way that suits you—Sigma supports flexibility in how and when you work best.
- Bi-annual Hackathons: Make, create, innovate—hack alongside peers twice a year.
- Unlimited Time Off: Recharge when you need—no limits on vacation days.
- Health & Wellness: Support for your overall well-being. We offer Carrot Pro, Wellhub+, Rightway, and OneMedical.
- Parental Leave: Paid leave to welcome new family members.
- Unagi Scooters: Zip to work on us with Unagi scooter benefits provided for free!
- Daily Lunches, Office Snacks, Coffee: Good vibes and great taste—lunch provided daily through DoorDash, unlimited snacks, coffee, tea, Celsius, and more!
- Professional Development & Career Growth: Clear career progression paths and room to grow into leadership, Support for conferences, L&D, and career growth.
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401(k) Plan: Plan for your future with our 401(k) offering.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rob Woollen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously an 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
(Co-Founder & 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 Palmer
(CEO)Prior to joining Sigma in 2020 as CEO, Mike was the CPO of Druva and Veritas Technologies. He also served as the SVP/GM at Seagate Technologies and as CMO, VP/GM of Cloud & Security Solutions at Verizon Enteprise Solutions.
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