Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Data Pipeline
$180-300k
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$180-300k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another related technical field
- 7+ years of experience working as a full-stack engineer with a front-end focus
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and actively collaborate with other teams to deliver values to customers
- Fluency with one or more JavaScript application frameworks (React/Redux, Angular, Backbone, etc.)
- Technical leadership in your current team. Other team members seek you out for advice
- Passionate about data processing is a huge plus
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Full-stack Software Engineer with front-end focus to help build out our data collection and processing system and integrate it with our data product
- As a member of the Data Pipeline team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the features and scaling underlying distributed systems that power our core analytics product by processing more than 1 trillion impressions per month
- We believe in the opportunity of making the ingestion system a product to give customers more power and improve data quality, such as self service and high flexibility and configurability pipelines, and you will play a critical role to lead this effort
- In this role, you will get to solve hardcore Infrastructure challenges like designing for extreme throughput and high flexibility, building resilient and maintainable systems to achieve close to zero downtime
- You will also get to interact with everything from our in-house highly available data collection and real time data processing pipeline to our products used by many customers to improve their own products
- In Amplitude, you will get to closely work with Product and Customers to define the strategy and roadmap for our product and new features
- Drive and lead projects, from ideation and implementation, through to launch
- Collaborate with infra engineers and with product and design teams to iterate on our product and internal tools
- Integrate with backend services and improve our API infrastructure built with Python, Java, Node, GraphQL and Postgres
- Lead engineering discussions and drive engineering best practices
- Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers and other team members
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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.
Insights
Few candidates hear
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
Founders
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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