Senior Security Engineer, Amplitude
$161-266k
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Program
2-5 days a week in office
Product analytics company
Be an early applicant
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$161-266k
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Program
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong focus on DevSecOps and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS
- Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) for AWS, as well as the Kubernetes ecosystem of tools
- Strong coding/scripting skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent languages for automating security tasks
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and integrating security controls early in the pipeline
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity, and leading through execution in fast-paced environments
- Willingness to go above and beyond, including submitting fixes and supporting teams directly when needed
- Experience using AI to automate security tasks is a significant plus (e.g. log analysis, code review, alert triage)
- Familiarity with application security concepts is preferred, but not required
What the job involves
- As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll lead security initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering, bringing a DevSecOps mindset to building automation and secure, scalable systems
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams and work across a wide range of domains including cloud security, container security, application security, and developer tooling
- This is a role for someone who enjoys context-switching across a range of initiatives and isn't afraid to get into the weeds to unblock teams or ship secure solutions quickly
- You’ll also participate in a shared on-call rotation to respond to high-risk security issues and incidents in order to help the business minimize exposure
- Success in this role means driving meaningful improvements in our security posture without slowing down development
- You’ll reduce time-to-remediate, build automated guardrails, and proactively identify risks before they become incidents
- You'll be a trusted partner to engineering, delivering high-velocity solutions that balance security and developer experience
- Harden AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation, policy-as-code, and guardrails
- Own and evolve our DevSecOps strategy across infrastructure and application pipelines
- Drive end-to-end secure development practices: integrate security into CI/CD, build pre-commit hooks, and improve developer productivity without sacrificing security
- Create and implement lightweight, scalable security controls that support fast-moving teams
- Partner with engineering to identify and mitigate risks in architecture, design, and implementation stages
- Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve critical/high-risk security issues as well as respond to security incidents with urgency and clarity
- Identify opportunities to fix systemic gaps, reduce recurring pain points, and avoid reactive “whack-a-mole” cycles
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. Whilst this case is ongoing, Amplitude is still releasing new products and operating at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336m
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
(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
(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
(Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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