Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)
New York, NY · NYC · San Francisco · Onsite · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- New York, NY · NYC · San Francisco
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About Sigma Computing
- Sigma is the AI Apps and agentic analytics platform built on the cloud data warehouse. Business and technical teams use Sigma to explore live data, build intelligent applications, and automate critical workflows all without moving data or breaking governance. Sigma supports a spreadsheet interface, SQL, Python, and native AI in a single governed workspace, giving every team the speed to act and IT the control to scale. Sigma is trusted by more than 2,000 customers, including AMD, Duolingo, Colgate-Palmolive, and JPMorgan Chase.
- Sigma announced its $80M in Series E financing in May 2026. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures participating alongside returning investors Altimeter Capital, Avenir Growth Capital, D1 Capital Partners, K5 Global, NewView Capital, Spark Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, and XN. This milestone follows Sigma reaching $200M in annual recurring revenue in April 2026, with more than 100% year-over-year growth and 1.1 million new active users added in the latest fiscal year.
- Come join us!
About the role
- As a Software Engineering Intern at Sigma, you will experiment, prototype, and implement features that help our global user base analyze and gather insights from their data.
- Interns work directly with our engineers, product leaders, and designers to build production software, scale backends, and design innovative solutions.
- You will take your project from ideation through implementation, iterating and gathering feedback along the way.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Current student currently enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate degree program in the U.S with a graduation date of December 2027 or later
- Able to intern from June 2027 through August/early September 2027
- Legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2027 program
- Able to work in-person in our office in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY for the duration of the internship
- Pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Intermediate to advanced grasp of Operating Systems, Data structures, algorithms and at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.
- Able to commit 40 hrs a week for 12 weeks in-person in our San Francisco, CA or New York, NY office
Preferred qualifications
- Ready to start work full-time by either January 2028 or June 2028
Skills
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- SQL