Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

# Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability Sigma New  York City, NYFull-time $170,000 – $240,000 / year Upload your resume once and Scout applies for you Apply with Scout Share this job:

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This senior software engineering role builds observability and reliability tools that help Sigma’s engineering teams monitor and operate their services. You’ll spend most of your time coding, improving uptime, and defining practices for measurable systems.
* Permanent* On-site
* 5+ years### Skills and expertise

Go Open Telemetry Kubernetes Metrics Logging Distributed  tracing

Dashboarding

Alerting### Key responsibilities
* Build observability platforms for metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
* Create runtime tools and processes that improve cloud triage and reduce downtime.
* Define system measurement practices, participate in code reviews, and support on-call service uptime.## How this job compares

Compared with 522 open senior infrastructure jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay:
This job pays $170K to $240K a year. The 183 open senior infrastructure jobs that publish US pay start at $170K on average, so this job starts in line with them.

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AI in this role:
Low. The company works with AI, but AI is a small part of this role's daily work. The work centers on observability and service reliability, not AI systems. Sigma’s product includes native AI, but the posting does not connect this role’s responsibilities to AI work.## Full description

Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability About the Role We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible.

What You Will Be Doing
• Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management
• Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
• Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time Qualifications We Need
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software other engineers use
• You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others
• Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work
• Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity

Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!)
• Experience building systems for data analytics
• Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills
• Knowledge of cloud application security models
• Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Startup experience

Additional Job details

The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Sigma Computing. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits…