Senior Software Engineer - Amplitude

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 2,300 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. 

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend focused team responsible for the APIs, services and data stores that power the core analytics product at Amplitude. The ideal candidate should be excited about mentoring engineers, care about performance, leading technical design discussions, being hands-on with the code, and caring about getting the details right. 

In this role, you will collaborate with a variety of teams all across the company. Your comprehensive understanding of the app will contribute to our diverse product strategy, encompassing everything from core analytics to experimental integration and session replay. Your work at Amplitude will be marked by close collaborations with our product and design teams, GTM, and direct engagement with our customers to shape the future of our products and features.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: 

• Transform product ideas from conception to implementation.

• Enhance our analysis experience using technologies like TypeScript, Python, Rest/GraphQL, and databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis.

• Elevate our application architecture.

• Foster collaboration with product and design teams, and other engineering groups.

• Lead and mentor in engineering discussions, advocating best practices.

• Actively participate in design and code reviews.

• Innovate in building a top-tier analytics backend through thoughtful abstractions.

• Tackle production issues across various services and levels of our infrastructure.

• Drive enhancements in our core analytics product, optimizing development and iteration cycles.

Youll be a great addition to the team if you:

• Have B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Have over 5 years of experience in a Software Engineering role.

• Have defined, managed, and scaled AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Have a solid background in developing application services, APIs, and maintaining testing, monitoring, isolation, and SLAs processes.

• Have experience with both relational (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Dynamo, Redis).

• Have designed, operated, and maintained large-scale distributed systems in production.

• Have leveraged customer feedback and architectural insights for significant engineering contributions.

• Have proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, TypeScript.

• Have knowledge of columnar OLAP databases.

• Have a fundamental understanding of front-end technologies and frameworks.

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 Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans

• Flexible time off, paid 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: 

• G2 Customer Reviews: #1 product analytics solution for 13 quarters in a row.

• Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on.

• Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.

• Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 

• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.

• Our mascot is the datamonster, 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.

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

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."