Staff Platform Engineer, Amplitude
$200-300k
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$200-300k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working in a DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure role
- 2+ years of experience with software engineering in at least one modern language such as Python, Java, or Javascript
- Experience managing and automating large AWS deployments (1000+ machines)
- Good experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Managing Build infrastructure, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines with tools like Spinnaker (CI/CD) and monitoring tools like Datadog
- Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing, and analytics is a plus
- Passion for solving challenging problems and iterating quickly
What the job involves
- Individually own a technical vision for the team
- Determine where we need the most tooling and owning the outcome of that tool. Drive adoption and incorporate feedback from engineers
- Identify blind spots in our telemetry and own projects to improve it. Train and educate other teams to understand and leverage new telemetry metrics
- Understand how to simplify our configuration systems to ensure any engineer can leverage the system. Identify how to support systems without custom configurations
- Define and own the outcomes for our build systems. Determine what tooling, custom applications, or re-architecturing of services is required to ensure a smooth build and deploy process
- Participate in an on-call rotation with the Platform team
- Research and implement improvements to how we manage our infrastructure
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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