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Staff Software Engineer, Data ManagementAmplitude • San Francisco, California, USA
Staff Software Engineer, Data Management

Staff Software Engineer, Data Management

Amplitude • San Francisco, California, USA
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Amplitude is the leading Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform helping over 4300 customersincluding Atlassian Burger King NBCUniversal Square and Under Armourbuild better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform teams can analyze test and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2 Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product data and marketing teams. Learn more at .

As an organization we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility take ownership of problems and successes approach challenges with a growth mindset and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitudes Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) : Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products improves the ability to solve complex problems and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusionone focused on psychological safety empathy and human connectionthat will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

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.

As a Staff Engineer you will :

  • Drive business impact endtoend. Own delivery of crossteam initiatives that measurably improve data quality reliability and developer velocityscoping 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 cleanup 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 datadriven experimentation that balance speed with sustainability .

Youll be a great addition to the team if you :

  • Stafflevel impact in backend engineering. Track record of owning and delivering crossteam systems in distributed microservices architectures including highthroughput ingestion and caching that balances speed and correctness.
  • Strong backend proficiency. Expertise in one or more of : JavaScript / TypeScript / and / or Python plus production experience with AWS and infrastructureascode (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 datanot 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 AIassisted automation.
  • Amplitude levels for impact not tenure. Title and compensation will be calibrated to scope and demonstrated outcomes. As a guideline candidates operating at Staff level often have 7 years of relevant experience but we prioritize evidence of impact and scale over years.

    Who We Are

    The Company : Amplitude is filled with humble life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset ownership and humility are core to the way we work : were tenacious in the face of challenges we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success and we operate from a place of empathy and openness seeking to understand many points of view.

    The Product : Amplitude is a digital analytics platformwe help companies capture data they can trust uncover clear insights about customer behavior and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. Were super proud of what weve built and continue to expand : a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

    We care about the well-being of our team : We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

    Some of our benefit programs include :

  • Excellent Medical Dental and Vision insurance coverages with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical Dental Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off paid holidays and more
  • Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you whether thats wellness (monthly) commuter transit / parking (monthly) learning and development (quarterly) home office equipment (annual) and much more
  • Excellent Parental benefits including : 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Carrot Fertility Benefits / Adoption / Surrogacy support Back-up Child Care support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  • Other fun facts about Amplitude :

  • We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
  • Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
  • We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
  • We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs management training and wellness initiatives.
  • We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
  • We were founded in 2012 went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
  • Were a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ) New York Vancouver Amsterdam London Paris Singapore and Tokyo.
  • Our mascot is Data Monster who loves to chow down on numbers charts and graphs. Nom nom.
  • Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status or sexual orientation.

    This role is eligible for equity benefits and other forms of compensation.

    Based on Colorado law the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range : $190000 - $286000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

    Based on legislation in New York City the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range : $212000 - $319000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

    Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range : $212000 - $319000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

    Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range : $190000 - $286000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

    Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range : $190000 - $286000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

    Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only : unlimited PTO 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary) medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

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    By applying for this job you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

    Staying Safe - Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud

    We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and / or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring to this article . Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

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    Employment Type : Full-Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 212000 - 319000

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