Staff Software Engineer

The Activation team at Amplitude is building a leading insights-driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost-effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.

In addition, we are building powerful Journey Orchestration capabilities that allow customers to design, automate, and optimize end-to-end customer experiences. This includes enabling real-time, behavior-based triggers, cross-channel coordination, experimentation within journeys, and intelligent decisioning powered by customer insights. Our goal is to help businesses move from static audience activation to dynamic, personalized journeys that adapt instantly to user behavior and drive measurable outcomes.

We are responsible for building and maintaining scalable real-time and batch data pipelines that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform processes over 800 petabytes of data per month—and it's growing rapidly.

In this role, you’ll tackle challenging infrastructure problems such as:

Designing systems to handle extreme throughputOptimizing for millisecond-level latenciesBuilding resilient architectures with near-zero downtime. You will also work closely with Product and Customers to shape the strategy and roadmap for both core platform capabilities and new product features. Our tech stack includes modern technologies such as Kafka, Temporal, real-time stream processing, Redis/Elasticache, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, and Terraform. You’ll join a team of curious, innovative engineers who love solving hard problems and sharing ideas.

 As a SOFTWARE ENGINEER, you will: 

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to turn ideas into working features
• Build backend services that integrate with a variety of data warehouses and cloud platforms
• Optimize the performance and scalability of our data import/export infrastructure to handle ever-growing data volumes
• Lead engineering discussions and set the bar for technical excellence and best practices
• Mentor junior engineers and support their growth and success
• Define and drive the architectural vision for the product, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• A strong sense of ownership and agency, with a desire to lead product and engineering initiatives from idea to execution.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Willingness to dive into new code bases, languages and frameworks.
• Enjoy working with customers and partners in solving problems and providing value.
• Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design

At a minimum, you need to have:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
• 6+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering role
• Previous experience with Python or Java is a plus
• Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing and analytics is a plus
• Previous experience with ETL/ETL pipelines is a plus
• Technical leadership of an engineering team is a plus

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support 
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan."                    
                    
                    

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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