Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Data Management
$212-319k
OTE
+ ESPP + Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$212-319k
OTE
+ ESPP + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Staff‑level impact in backend engineering. Track record of owning and delivering cross‑team systems in distributed, microservices architectures, including high‑throughput ingestion and caching that balances speed and correctness
- Strong backend proficiency. Expertise in one or more of: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python, plus production experience with AWS and infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform, CDK)
- Operational ownership. Experience defining/measuring SLOs, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and applying observability (metrics/logs/traces) and automated testing to keep systems reliable at scale
- Customer focus. Ability to translate customer and account team signals into technical strategy and sequenced delivery, validating outcomes with data—not just intent
- Engineering principles in action. Demonstrated Bias for Action, Impact > Effort prioritization, deep Technical Ownership, commitment to Customer Focus, and investment in Personal & Team Development
- Excellent communication and alignment skills. Comfortable facilitating decisions across multiple stakeholders and creating crisp, shared understanding
- Nice to have. Domain experience in event analytics, data governance/taxonomy, metadata systems, RBAC/privacy, experimentation, or AI‑assisted automation
What the job involves
- The Data Management team is building the Trust Engine that powers the entire product. We are moving beyond simple data entry to architecting a self-healing, intelligent data ecosystem
- As a member of the team, you will drive the technical vision for how customers define, govern, and trust their data at massive scale. You will design the system that governs the data lifecycle, building scalable systems responsible for complex ingestion planning, semantic enrichment, and data observability
- You will lead the charge in transforming data governance from a manual chore into an automated, AI-driven infrastructure that powers our 'Ask AI' and Data Assistant capabilities. You are solving the hardest problem in analytics: proving that the data is right
- The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure
- Drive business impact end‑to‑end. Own delivery of cross‑team initiatives that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and developer velocity—scoping MVPs, sequencing work, and validating with real signals
- Create clarity and shape strategy. Turn ambiguous problems into actionable plans; define technical direction, standards, and reusable tools that help multiple teams ship faster with confidence
- Uphold operational excellence. Define and raise SLOs for services that power the data management experience; own instrumentation, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Scale systems and performance. Lead efforts to improve throughput for ingestion and governance workflows, reduce latency with the right caching patterns, and harden critical paths
- Build the foundations for trusted data. Evolve platform capabilities such as a shared data health evaluation framework and APIs, event/property observability (anomalies, schema drift), safe clean‑up workflows, and metadata ingestion—often in partnership with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams
- Partner across functions. Work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams (e.g., Analytics, Experiment, Ingestion/Query) and engage with customers and account teams to ground decisions in real needs and outcomes
- Mentor and multiply. Raise the bar through design reviews, thoughtful code reviews, and coaching helping other engineers grow in judgment, systems thinking, and execution
- Champion pragmatic delivery. Advocate for iterative milestones, canary/flagged rollouts, and data‑driven experimentation that balance speed with sustainability
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. The case has since been resolved, and Amplitude continues to release new products and operate at full capacity.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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