Staff Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure - 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.

We’re looking for a staff engineer to help architect and build the systems that enable our product engineers to succeed. As one of the most senior members you will be responsible for the workflows for the entire engineering team, ensuring everyone standardizes on the same tooling with scalability, testability, maintainability and robustness in mind. You will be making decisions on what state management libraries, graphql data fetching libraries, micro-frontend architecture, and shared state management systems we use. You will be responsible for driving the execution of these decisions to make sure we achieve 100% adoption in the org.

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• Create & maintain high level design & documentation about our frontend architecture, showing how all the pieces come together with detailed deep dives in key areas.

• Come up with a series of frontend standards and guidelines, building a migration plan to reach eventual adoption and ensure in code reviews they are followed.

• Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices.

• Identify key areas of optimization to increase application performance.

• Evaluate new frameworks and tools, setting our technical direction and push towards standardization.

• Mentor other engineers in best practices, training them to have an outsized impact on the codebase.

• Evangelize the work, sharing in large all-hands meetings changes proposed and measured success metrics.

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Have 6+ years of experience developing the frontend infrastructure that enables products to be built

• Have extensive experience working in a frontend infrastructure role.

• Are seen as a technical leader in your organization. Other team members seek you out for mentorship and advice.

• Thrive in a technical leadership role on an engineering team, and are constantly seeking opportunities to encourage those around you to excel.

• Like to work closely with other engineers to understand their developer experience problems, iteratively collecting feedback.

• Have a good understanding of current and emerging trends in web application development.

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