Software Engineer, Amplitude
Data Management
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
- Solid fullstack engineering experience. 2–4 years delivering features that span backend services and user-facing product, including APIs and interactive UI
- Fullstack proficiency. Working skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js and/or React) and/or Python, plus some exposure to AWS or cloud infrastructure tooling
- A reliability mindset. Familiarity with observability basics (metrics, logs, traces) and automated testing — and a habit of thinking about what happens when things go wrong
- Customer focus. Ability to connect your work to customer outcomes and use data to validate that what you shipped actually helped
- Clear communication. Comfortable asking clarifying questions, flagging tradeoffs, and keeping teammates informed without being prompted
- Nice to have. Exposure to event analytics, data governance/taxonomy, metadata systems, session replay, or AI-assisted tooling
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 contribute to the technical vision for how customers define, govern, and trust their data at massive scale
- You will help design and build systems that govern the data lifecycle, including complex ingestion planning, semantic enrichment, and data observability — spanning backend infrastructure, APIs, and the product surfaces customers interact with directly
- You will be at the forefront of transforming data governance from a manual chore into an automated, AI-driven infrastructure that powers our 'Ask AI' and Data Assistant capabilities
- You are helping solve 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
- Ship features end-to-end. Take ownership of features and improvements that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and the customer experience — from design through delivery, with support from senior teammates where needed
- Contribute to technical discussions. Participate actively in design and code reviews, ask good questions, propose solutions, and help raise the quality bar for the work you're closest to
- Build for reliability. Instrument the services you build, contribute to on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and leave systems better than you found them
- Write correct, scalable code. Contribute to ingestion and governance workflows with attention to correctness, performance, and testability — applying appropriate caching, error handling, and resilience patterns
- Help build trusted data foundations. Work on capabilities such as event/property observability (anomalies, schema drift), safe clean-up workflows, metadata ingestion, and shared data health APIs — often in collaboration with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams
- Contribute to fullstack delivery. Build features spanning backend services, data pipelines, and the UI and product surfaces customers use daily
- Partner across functions. Work with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver well-grounded solutions
- Grow and help others grow. Invest in your own development, share what you learn, and contribute to a culture of feedback and continuous improvement
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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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: $336.1m
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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