# Software Engineer - Compiler

**Company:** [Sigma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sigma)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $235k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Rust, TypeScript, SQL, Compilers, Query Optimization, Distributed Systems, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, GraphQL
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Build and optimize compiler infrastructure that translates spreadsheet operations into efficient SQL queries for cloud data warehouses. Requires 5+ years experience with strong CS fundamentals in compilers and algorithms.

## Job Description

## What You Will Be Doing

- Tackle core challenges at the intersection of data modeling, query compilation, and large-scale interactive analytics—making it possible for end-users to query data warehouses efficiently without deep technical knowledge
- Design, build, and maintain sophisticated compiler infrastructure and intermediate representations that translate spreadsheet operations into optimized query plans
- Apply advanced optimization strategies to improve performance and accuracy across a wide range of query workloads and data architectures
- Contribute to both backend (Rust) and key frontend foundations (TypeScript), evolving critical abstractions that enable end-to-end workflow optimizations and new features
- Debug, analyze, and resolve complex issues, ensuring robustness and maintainability in a rapidly evolving product
- Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to review designs and code, driving technical best practices and architectural decisions throughout the team and company

## Qualifications We Need

- 5+ years experience engineering high-quality software systems
- Demonstrated success building and maintaining complex infrastructure or core platform services
- Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, particularly in compilers, algorithms, SQL Optimization
- Passion for teamwork, technical ownership, and continually raising the engineering bar
- Experience working in an iterative, high-cadence environment

## Qualifications We Want

- Exposure to distributed systems, query optimization, or database internals
- Experience with API or data model design in the context of high-performance cloud services
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
- A curiosity for new languages and tools, and a drive to solve challenging problems at scale (Rust, Go, Node, K8s, GraphQL)

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base salary range: $170k - $235k annually
- Eligible for stock options
- Comprehensive benefits package including generous health benefits, flexible time off, paid bonding time, 401k, commuter and FSA benefits, lunch program

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