Engineering Manager, Amplitude

• Proven leadership experience managing a team of senior/staff-level engineers, ideally in a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience domain
• Strong technical background in cloud-native infrastructure: Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tools, CI/CD, observability, infra-as-code (Terraform or equivalents)
• Ability to judge and coach technical quality — not necessarily by writing every line of code, but by understanding engineering trade-offs and maintaining high standards
• Transformational leadership mindset with a track record (or strong passion) for leveraging AI/LLMs to improve developer productivity and platform tooling
• Customer-centricity: Demonstrated success in building platforms that internal engineers love to use
• Growth mindset: Both for yourself and for your team. Track record of mentoring, coaching, and promoting talent
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a track record of partnering across engineering and security teams

Desirable

• Amplitude’s Platform team is the foundation for how our engineers build, deploy, and operate software
• We manage our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, developer tooling, and the golden path for delivering reliable, secure, and cost-efficient systems - and we do it by taking a software development approach to problem solving
• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team of highly experienced engineers
• This role is critical to ensuring daily tactical success while also evolving our infrastructure and developer experience
• You will balance hands-on technical credibility with transformational leadership, enabling the team to deliver effectively today while shaping how Amplitude builds software in the future
• This role reports to the Senior Director of Infrastructure
• Lead and manage the Infra Platform team of engineers, fostering a culture of business impact, ownership, accountability, and customer-centricity
• Provide technical leadership in Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tooling, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code — guiding the team with credible insights and judgment
• Spend ~30% of your time hands on - code contributions will very much be part of the day to day. We have tools written in Go, Python, Node, Javascript, etc
• Drive AI transformation in developer experience by identifying and implementing ways to use AI/LLMs beyond code generation — such as automating Platform onboarding, using AI Ops to auto-heal systems, or other abstractions that simplify developer workflows and eliminate copy/paste patterns
• Own people management responsibilities:
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching, and ensure engagement across the team
• Run performance reviews, hold team members accountable to growth plans, and make promotion and compensation recommendations
• Recognize and reward progress, celebrate successes, and ensure engineers feel supported and challenged
• Drive alignment within a team of strong, experienced engineers — facilitating healthy debate, making trade-offs, and ensuring the team delivers cohesive solutions
• Ensure high code quality and engineering standards by actively reviewing, providing feedback, and spotting quality trends at both the individual and team level
• Partner cross-functionally with Security Engineering, FinOps, and Product Engineering teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions that benefit all of Engineering and/or our products
• Contribute to strategic direction of the platform organization, while ensuring day-to-day operational success and tactical execution