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SigmaSigmaNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Build backend distributed services and APIs for a cloud data analytics platform using Rust, Go, GraphQL, and Kubernetes. Requires 2+ years experience building web applications and strong CS fundamentals.

170k – 240k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You Will Be Doing

  • 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, Node, and Kubernetes
  • Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues
  • Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base
  • Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies

Qualifications We Need

  • 2+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software
  • Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment
  • Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work
  • Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Qualifications We Want

  • Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems
  • Data model design, and API development experience
  • SQL query optimization and database internals
  • Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success

Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees

  • Equity
  • Generous health benefits
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Paid bonding time for all new parents
  • Traditional and Roth 401k
  • Commuter and FSA benefits
  • Lunch Program
  • Dog friendly office

Skills

RustGoGraphQLNode.jsKubernetesSQLGCPAWSAzureDistributed Systems

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