Security Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

 

 

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 and we're looking for the next generation of security professionals to join our growing team.

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 2025 or later
• Able to intern from June 2025 through early September 2025 (12 weeks)
• Authorization: 
• You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2025 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 4 days in office for in person collaboration with our team

About the role:

Our Security Engineering 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.

During your internship your responsibilities will include:

• Participation in Cyber operations, 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
• Build automations for Cyber Incident Response and remediation to establish an effective Security Program
• 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 Cyber threat detection and vulnerability management automation efforts for Cloud
• Assist in implementing an effective structure program for Cyber operations and reduce noise from SIEM alerts by creating high fidelity rules
• Analyzing logs and hunting for suspicious activities

What we’re looking for:

• Applicants must be pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree (Masters preferred) in Cyber Security, Cyber Assurance, Computer Science or a related field.
• Preference for candidates with excellent knowledge of Python.
• Introductory knowledge of security concepts: AV, Firewall, SIEM, Threat and Vulnerability Scanning, Data loss Prevention, Network Security, 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, Threat monitoring & hunting, Sigma Rules, configuration reviews, firewalls, social engineering.
• Strong understanding and passion for Security Engineering and automations.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment

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