Software Engineer, Amplitude
Backend/Data Systems
$154-231k
OTE
+ ESPP
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Product analytics company
Open for applications
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$154-231k
OTE
+ ESPP
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
- You'll be a great addition to the team if you possess a strong technical foundation and a passion for solving complex, large-scale problems
- Experience: 2–3+ years of industry experience in a Software Engineering role, preferably focused on backend or data systems
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field
- Technical Foundation: A strong foundation in programming, data structures, algorithms, multi-threading programming, and software application design/system design
- Programming Proficiency: Hands-on experience and proficiency in at least one modern backend language, such as Python, Java, C++, Typescript or Go
- Systems Experience: Background in building high-performance, scalable backend systems and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providers
- Database Knowledge: Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills, collaboration skills, and an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Mindset: Passionate about solving challenging technical problems and iterating quickly
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or related technologies (e.g., Temporal, dbt, Apache Iceberg)
Desirable
- Previous experience in distributed systems, large-scale data processing, analytics platforms (e.g., OLAP systems), application backends, microservices, supporting high throughput ingestion systems, optimizing caching that balances speed and correctness
- Understanding of the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications – frontend experience is a plus
- Experience working with ETL pipelines or data products on top of cloud warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
- Prior contributions to scaling products or systems during periods of rapid growth
- Experience with API development and enhancing the flexibility and usability of compute APIs
What the job involves
- Amplitude is seeking a highly motivated and curious Software Engineer II to join our data infrastructure teams. Our mission is help companies build better digital products and experiences
- You will be contributing to the core platform that processes and integrates massive amounts of customer data—up to 2 trillion events per month—to power our analytics product
- As a Software Engineer II, you will be a key contributor to the team, involved in the full software development lifecycle from ideation to deployment
- Design and Implementation: Take product ideas and requirements from ideation to implementation, focusing on developing and maintaining backend services and components that expand the capabilities of our analytics product and semantic and data layers
- System Scale and Performance: Design and implement distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability (best-in-class system availability) for our rapidly growing data and query volumes. Optimize performance to be blazingly fast across our data infrastructure
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to translate high-level requirements into working, user-facing features. Work with cross-functional teams to support multi-product integration initiatives
- Technical Leadership & Quality: Actively participate in design discussions, contribute to the infrastructure roadmap, and conduct thorough code reviews. Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers/peers on engineering best practices and system knowledge sharing
- Problem Solving: Utilize monitoring tools to quickly diagnose and resolve performance, correctness, and stability issues, ensuring a robust and reliable platform. Research complex technical topics from papers and open-source projects to devise innovative solutions
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 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.2m
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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