Technical Sourcer (Contract)
Duration: 6 Months
About the Role
As a Technical Sourcer, you will act as a strategic talent partner to engineering leadership, responsible for building and optimizing top-of-funnel pipelines that directly impact the growth of Sigma’s technical organization. You’ll play a critical role in identifying and engaging engineering professionals with deep technical expertise. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about the intersection of technology and talent acquisition, and who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
This is a 6 month contract position based in our San Francisco or New york office. This position offers the potential for conversion to a full-time role upon the successful completion of the contract period, based on performance and business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and execute the full sourcing lifecycle for engineering roles, with a focus on frontend, backend, infrastructure, and systems-level talent.
- Design and deploy innovative sourcing strategies using advanced search techniques, competitive mapping, market intelligence, and data-driven experimentation.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Recruiting stakeholders to deeply understand technical requirements, team dynamics, and hiring priorities.
- Build and maintain technical talent pipelines aligned to high-priority initiatives such as distributed systems architecture, data platform scaling, and developer experience.
- Continuously refine sourcing operations, driving improvements in outreach strategies, conversion rates, and candidate experience through metrics and automation.
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by providing market insights, candidate calibration, and funnel analytics to guide decision-making.
- Champion recruiting enablement, including interviewer calibration, pipeline forecasting, and ATS optimization (Greenhouse).
- Leverage tooling across the stack—LinkedIn Recruiter, GoodTime, Github, and custom Boolean logic—to efficiently identify and engage passive technical talent.
- Ensure sourcing hygiene and compliance by consistently updating pipelines and maintaining accurate data across sourcing workflows and systems.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of technical sourcing/recruiting experience in a fast-paced startup or agency setting focused on engineering hires.
- Demonstrated ability to source for deep technical roles—including frontend, backend engineers, infrastructure engineers, and systems architects—at scale.
- Proficient in leveraging search algorithms, GitHub, Stack Overflow, advanced Boolean strings, and other sourcing tools to target highly specialized engineers.
- Technically literate; comfortable engaging with engineers on foundational concepts like distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- High attention to detail with strong organizational and operational rigor.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly synthesize technical requirements and market feedback.
- Experience sourcing within SaaS or high-growth technology companies strongly preferred.
- Proficient in recruiting technology including ATS (Greenhouse), scheduling tools (GoodTime), and sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, etc.).
Additional Job details
The pay range for this position is $40/hr - $60/hr per hour.
About us:
Sigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface – no coding required.
Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment.
Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth.
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 benefits
- Lunch Program
- Dog friendly office
Sigma Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a smart and strong team regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.
Note: We have an in-office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, and London.
