Security Engineer Intern (Summer 2024)

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 Cyber Security domains and learn efficient Security engineering for large scalable systems/environments. Our interns connect 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 securing the world. Sigma is shaping the future of business insights and data visualization.

Internship Program Qualifications:

• Current student: 
• You must be currently enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate degree program in the U.S with a graduation date of December 2024 or later
• Able to intern from June 2023 through early September 2024 (12 weeks)
• Authorization: 
• You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2024 program
• Visa sponsorship is not available for our internship positions, but we welcome applicants on a student visa (with authorization to work in the U.S.) to apply
• Location: 
• Located within the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate during the internship. Relocation assistance will be provided for students who will need to relocate for the summer.
• Able to work 40 hours per week (full-time) in a hybrid work model with a minimum of 3 days in office for in person collaboration with our team

About the role:

Our cybersecurity internship is designed to provide exposure to a variety of security tasks that one should expect as a junior or entry-level security analyst. This Security Engineer internship will provide you the opportunity to solve Sigma’s critical security and data protection related challenges. You will be part of a growing team in cyber resilience, incident response, and technical implementation activities. As a generalist, you will have the opportunity to work in many facets of Cybersecurity, Application Security, Privacy and Compliance projects. 

During your internship your responsibilities will include:

• Participation in security design reviews, conducting research, design and documentation associated with proper controls and remediation to protect information and systems
• Determine the technical and business impact and the likelihood of identified security issues and provide remediation guidance to stakeholders
• Through a rotation with our broader Security team, you will probe deeply into specific Cyber domains like Application Security, Pentesting, Security Operations, Cloud Infrastructure Security, Risk & Compliance
• Collaborate with the Security teams by scoping and delivering a capstone project in a specific research area
• Monitoring and triaging alerts/vulnerabilities from our other Cloud security monitoring systems. Responsible for the cyberthreat detection and vulnerability management automation efforts for Cloud and Product Engineering
• Helping support security oversight efforts as part of a compliance program
• Collaborate to review, exploit and triage Pentester findings and also work on internal Pentest Program
• Build automations to establish an effective Security Program

What we’re looking for:

• Applicants must be pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Cyber Security, Cyber Assurance, Computer Science or a related field.
• Introductory knowledge of security concepts: AV, Firewall, SIEM, Threat and Vulnerability Scanning, Cloud and Information Security Patterns, and Experience with one or more Cloud Infrastructure providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Familiar with security testing techniques such as network discovery, port and service identification, vulnerability scanning, network sniffing, fuzzing, penetration testing, configuration reviews, firewalls, social engineering, and password cracking.
• Strong understanding and passion for Security Engineering skills
• Have a drive and desire to navigate unknowns, after all, that’s what unlocks realizations
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment

Note: The world around us is changing, but we at Sigma Computing are growing and scaling. We raised our Series C in Dec 2021. With that, and us being able to 3X our revenue year on year, hiring and building out the best version of our product is priority. That is why we want to talk to you.

About us:

At Sigma Computing, our mission is to empower everyone to make the best possible decisions at every turn by removing the barriers that prevent people from analyzing data across sources and delivering the full spectrum of self-service cloud analytics and business intelligence.

We raised a $300M Series C from Co-Leads D1 Capital Partners and XN, Existing Investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Altimeter Capital, and Snowflake Ventures.

Come join us to help us be smarter and grow together!

Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees:

• Equity
• Generous health benefits
• Flexible time off policy. Take the time off you need!
• Flexible schedule, do the work you need to get done in the time you have to get it done
• At least 12 weeks of paid bonding time for all new parents
• Traditional and Roth 401k
• Commuter and FSA benefits

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 both our SF & NYC office.