Engineering Manager

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Engineering Manager

Sigma

San Francisco, CAFull-time$230,000 – $270,000 / year

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This engineering manager leads a team delivering Sigma’s product roadmap on its high-performance data platform. The role combines team development and hiring with cross-functional planning and technical input on architecture and query optimization.

• Permanent
• On-site
• 5+ years technical experience; 2+ years people management

Skills and expertise

Technical architectureQuery optimizationProduct developmentRoadmap executionComputer science fundamentalsEngineering team leadership

Key responsibilities

• Own engineering roadmap execution and delivery in partnership with cross-functional and executive teams.
• Coach, mentor, evaluate, and develop engineers while building an accountable, high-performing team.
• Contribute to architecture and implementation discussions involving optimized queries.

How this job compares

Compared with 203 open manager engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.

Pay : This job pays $230K to $270K a year. The 113 open manager engineering jobs that publish US pay start at $199K on average, so this job starts about 16% higher.

Similar open jobs : We Love AI Jobs lists 203 open manager engineering jobs at 92 companies.

Remote work : This job is on site. 31 of the 203 manager engineering jobs (15%) are remote.

AI in this role : Low. The company works with AI, but AI is a small part of this role's daily work. The role is focused on engineering leadership, platform delivery, and query optimization. Although Sigma’s product includes AI capabilities, the posting does not describe day-to-day work with AI models or tooling.

Full description

Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. As we grow the engineering team, we are looking for engineering leaders who want to build great products, devising product development, prioritization and execution strategy as well as developing a strong team providing career development, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, developing promotion cases, and other managerial responsibilities.

About the role:

We are looking for a self motivated, engineering leader eager to lead engineering teams with high performing engineers. You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and support your teams to deliver incrementally against our roadmap.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborate with cross-functional groups, executive team, field teams to devise business impact product strategy

• Enable the team to realize their potential and set them for achieving their career development goals

• Own execution and delivery of roadmaps, to help setup the business and your team for success

• Partner with the staffing team to recruit and build performing team

• Instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability within the team wherein members hold each other to a high bar

• Participate in discussions pertaining to the architecture and implementation techniques to represent, translate and optimize user directives into optimized queries

You:

• Love working with world-class engineers, product managers, and architects to solve complex problems and enable business impact

• Have 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years of people management experience

• Are opinionated and have great product sense make data driven decisions when unblocking the business

• Have hired, and developed high performing engineering teams

• Are curious, love to learn and to dig into new technologies to apply them when solving technical challenges

• Have demonstrated strong technical architecture and engineering skills along with the ability to switch between technology paradigms

• Have strong computer science fundamentals

Additional Job details

The base salary range for this position is $230k - $270k 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 package.

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