Senior Platform Engineer, Amplitude
$183-276k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$183-276k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, with serious hands-on time in cloud infrastructure
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field
- Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem) and containerized applications at meaningful scale
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python preferred) and IaC tooling (Terraform)
- Working knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, S3) and networking/security fundamentals
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem (Argo, Helm, Backstage, Envoy, and friends)
- A track record of delivering projects that measurably improved reliability, performance, or developer productivity
- Curiosity and conviction about AI as a force multiplier in infrastructure work — whether that's using AI-assisted development tools to ship faster or building platforms and tooling that help your teammates get more leverage from AI in their day-to-day work
- Strong communicator — you can break down complex topics for varied audiences and default to collaborative problem solving
- Comfort navigating ambiguity by validating assumptions early and using data to de-risk technical decisions
- A pragmatic, business-aligned engineering mindset and a habit of continuous learning
What the job involves
- Amplitude's Cloud Platform team builds the systems that every Amplitude engineer relies on every day to ship code — and we're rebuilding them for the AI era
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll own medium-to-high-complexity platform projects end-to-end and help shape a platform where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans: kicking off deploys, opening pull requests against infrastructure, and triaging incidents, so a single engineer can get the throughput of a team
- You'll partner with Staff engineers and product teams to make Kubernetes effortless across the engineering org, building self-service automation and scalable AWS infrastructure that lets product teams ship faster, safer, and with less cognitive load. If you're excited about building the systems that other engineers will rely on every day, this role is for you
- Lead high-impact platform projects — design and ship capabilities that move the needle on developer experience, reliability, or security, and set the bar for quality, testing, and safe deployment practices
- Build the AI-augmented platform. Design tooling and workflows that help engineers get more out of AI-assisted development — think infra primitives that are easy to reason about, automated review, and policy-as-code that keeps the guardrails strong as AI shifts how code gets written
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and emerging tooling — and make it consumable enough that an LLM can safely PR against it
- Evolve our CI/CD backbone (Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts, GitHub Actions) to make deploys faster, safer, and easier to reason about
- Instrument and operate. Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, own dashboards and SLOs, and use the data to push reliability forward
- Participate in on-call, lead incident response when needed, and turn postmortems into durable platform improvements
- Reduce toil and tech debt with pragmatic remediation plans that account for future requirements and operational cost
- Translate product needs into platform features by partnering closely with product engineering teams
- Mentor and multiply. Coach junior and mid-level engineers, support their growth, and onboard new teammates — including helping the team get more leverage out of AI-assisted development
- Shape the roadmap by spotting high-leverage opportunities and scoping them to maximize impact
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics, including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. The case has since been resolved, and Amplitude continues to release new products and operate at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.1m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spenser Skates
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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