Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

Location: San Francisco, CA Department: Engineering

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 2027 or later

Able to intern from June 2027 through August/early September 2027 (dates flexible)

Authorization

You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2027 program

Visa sponsorship is not available for our internship positions

Location

Our remaining internships are in-person and located primarily within San Francisco, CA or New York, NY. 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 or New York, NY 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 or New York, NY office

Ready to start work full-time by either January 2028 or June 2028 (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.

About us

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!

Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees

Equity

Generous health benefits

Flexible time off policy. Take the time off you need!

Paid bonding time for all new parents

Traditional and Roth 401k

Commuter and FSA bene