Staff Engineer, Amplitude
Cloud Infrastructure
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in some combination of cloud-native software development, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and/or cloud infrastructure, with a more recent focus on Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes and related CNCF projects (e.g., Argo CD/Workflows, Backstage, Envoy, CoreDNS, and more) and in simplifying complex cloud infrastructure for broader teams
- Operational experience at scale with technologies like Kafka and Airflow
- Proficient in common infrastructure languages like Golang, Python, and Terraform, with experience developing and operating production systems
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, networking, and security
- Proven experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, etc.) and a strong understanding of system performance tuning
- Expertise in building abstractions over Kubernetes to simplify developer interaction with the platform
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams, build consensus, and drive initiatives in a high-pressure environment
- High level of empathy and patience, with a commitment to mentoring and helping others succeed, and the ability to incorporate feedback and turn it into actionable improvements
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, etc.), with a focus on reducing toil and operational overhead
- A mindset focused on improving the developer experience and business alignment, with the flexibility to make decisions that may go against ideal technical preferences when necessary
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly experienced and collaborative Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team
- You will be responsible for the design, automation, and optimization of our Kubernetes-based platform, ensuring that it is scalable, easy to use, and reliable
- This is a critical role for our company, and we are seeking someone who not only has deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes but also values mentoring, collaboration, and open communication
- Your work will directly impact our developer productivity by building systems and abstractions that simplify the deployment of new workloads, making it easy for developers to focus on building features, not infrastructure
- In this role, you will help drive a cultural shift in how our Platform team operates, working to create positive relationships across the company, building trust, and making our platform easier to use
- We value someone who listens, learns, and communicates effectively while still ensuring high technical standards and reliability
- Lead the design, implementation, and management of our Kubernetes-based platform, focusing on scalability, developer experience, and system reliability
- Architect and maintain automation around Kubernetes, ensuring that the platform is easy for developers to use and requires minimal toil to deploy or modify workloads in a self-service model
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, leaders, and other infrastructure teams) to gather requirements, build consensus, and deliver impactful solutions
- Integrate observability into the platform, using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and Splunk to monitor system health and performance
- Drive infrastructure-as-code initiatives using tools like Kubernetes Operators, Helm, Kustomize, and Terraform promoting automation, repeatability, and reliability
- Ensure that the platform integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines (using Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts, Github Actions, Jenkins, or similar) and continuously improve developer workflows
- Contribute to the operational excellence of the platform, including on-call responsibilities and incident management, while building self-healing capabilities where possible
- Act as a mentor to other engineers on the team, promoting growth and knowledge sharing, ensuring that the team thrives even in the absence of specific individuals
- Foster a culture of collaboration, empathy, and trust within the team and across departments, helping to bridge gaps between engineering and other business functions
- Take a hands-on approach to problem-solving, sometimes submitting PRs to resolve issues in codebases or providing detailed solutions when teams need assistance
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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back within 2 weeks
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
Articles
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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