Senior Software Engineer, Amplitude
Experiment SDK
$170-256k
OTE
Eligible for equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Product analytics company
Be an early applicant
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-256k
OTE
Eligible for equity
More information about location
2+ 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 building stable, high-quality, flexible SDKs and libraries
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Experience with multiple programming languages and platforms
- Thrive in a technical leadership role on an engineering team, and are constantly seeking opportunities to encourage those around you to excel
- Have a great understanding of current and emerging trends in open source software, web and mobile development, and developer tooling
- Constant desire to learn, grow, and take on additional responsibilities as an engineer
- Strong practitioner of automated testing
- Bonus points if you have feature flagging or AB testing knowledge and prior experience working on internal or external feature flagging and AB testing products
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior SDK engineer to join the Experiment team within Amplitude
- You will be part of a passionate group of engineers to help modern businesses build and transform their products through feature flagging mixed with data and experimentation
- As a senior infrastructure and SDK engineer, you will be responsible for developing Experiment’s critical evaluation and feature delivery infrastructure and 9+ SDKs, which handle over 100 billion evaluation requests per month
- Develop and maintain 9+ SDK using TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to engineers integrating our SDKs into their applications
- Produce and refine high-quality documentation, including guides, README files, and technical documentation hosted on our docs site
- Extend CI/CD systems to automate building, testing, and deploying SDKs to npm and other package managers, ensuring smooth releases
- Work cross functionally with Experiment product and engineering teams, to deliver end-to-end features
- Mentor other engineers in best practices, training them to have an outsized impact on the codebase
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product and systems
- Evangelize the work, sharing in large all-hands meetings changes proposed and measured success metrics
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 values
- Humility - For Amplitude, humility is all about checking its egos at the door.
- Ownership - Ownership means that Amplitude can take the initiative to solve problems that drive its shared company success.
- Growth Mindset - A growth mindset is essential to ensuring every employee at Amplitude can advance their career.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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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.
People progressing
Joined as Recruiting and Front Desk Coordinator, promoted to Recruiting Operations Associate after 9 months and again to Technical Recruiter after 5 months. They were promoted again to Senior Technical Recruiter in September 2021.
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