Software Engineering Manager, Amplitude
$254-381k
OTE
+ Equity and ESPP
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$254-381k
OTE
+ Equity and ESPP
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years leading engineers (people management and/or tech lead) and 6+ years building backend or infrastructure systems
- Hands-on experience with distributed data systems — OLAP databases, data warehouses, stream processing, or large-scale storage — and modern cloud infrastructure (AWS S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, Kubernetes, Terraform)
- A track record of meaningfully improving reliability, latency, or cost efficiency for a production system with clear SLOs and incident accountability
- Strong communication skills and experience partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to define roadmaps and measurable outcomes
- Are drawn to hard problems at the intersection of query engines, distributed systems, and product impact — you’re as comfortable discussing storage layout as you are discussing customer outcomes
- Lead with humility and ownership — you create environments where engineers take real ownership and grow their impact, and you hold yourself to the same standard
- Think in systems and tradeoffs — you can frame a complex decision clearly, communicate it to a room of mixed stakeholders, and drive alignment
- Stay technically close — you read design docs, engage in architectural decisions, and give your team the context and space to execute well
What the job involves
- Every AI insight, every experiment, every cohort at Amplitude starts with a query
- Our in-house OLAP engine, Nova, processes trillions of events in real time — turning raw behavioral data into fast, trustworthy answers that power decisions for thousands of product teams worldwide
- We’re entering a world where AI agents don’t just assist product teams — they ship features, run experiments, and make prioritization calls autonomously
- What makes that possible is agents’ ability to verify their work against real product data continuously
- That makes Nova the critical infrastructure in the loop, and as non-stop agents become the main source of queries, the demand on Nova’s throughput, correctness, and operational rigor grows dramatically
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Query team through this inflection point
- You’ll own the vision and roadmap for one of Amplitude’s most critical infrastructure pillars, lead a high-performing team of engineers, and make the strategic calls that balance today’s reliability with tomorrow’s ambition
- Set the direction for the Query platform — define the roadmap, make priorities explicit, and align engineering, product, and cross-functional partners behind a clear plan
- Lead and grow a team of ~10 engineers, partnering with your tech lead to define Nova's technical direction while coaching, developing, and scaling the team through hiring and performance feedback
- Drive platform evolution across the query engine’s core layers — storage, compute and query execution — to define Amplitude’s next generation of analytics
- Guide the design and operation of large-scale distributed systems, including load management, fault tolerance, capacity planning, and on-call practices. You own the SLOs g, and cost efficiency
- Report to the Director of Data and partner across Product, Data Warehouse, Data Pipeline, Middleware, AI, and Support to co-define Amplitude's data strategy and shape how customers query and explore their data
- Engage directly on major customer onboardings and escalations, turning customer learnings into durable platform improvements
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: $336.2m
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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