Software Engineering Intern

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. 

Our internship program at Sigma:

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.

Internship Program Qualifications:

• 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 2024 or later
• Able to intern from June 2024 through early September 2024
• Authorization: 
• You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2024 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 within San Francisco, CA. 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 for the duration of their internship

About the role:

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. 

During your internship you will:

• 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

What we’re looking for:

• 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 2025 or June 2025 (preferred) 

Additional Job details

Interns at Sigma are compensated with an hourly rate and relocation bonus (where applicable). Our hourly rate for this role is $50.00 per hour.