Staff Backend Engineer, Amplitude
Workspaces
$204-307k
OTE
+ Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$204-307k
OTE
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience building and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providers
- You have proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, Javascript
- You have experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
- You have experience working on consumer facing products
- You have worked on services that have needed to scale quickly
What the job involves
- The Workspaces team is a core vertical product team responsible for driving engagement and retention across our Analytics product line
- The team owns a wide variety of surfaces (Search, Dashboards, Spaces, Alerts and Notifications)
- As we invest more in notifications, alerts, and search as engagement levers, there is a need to scale out our existing infrastructure
- This role will help us ensure we can support 10X growth in these services
- Drive performance and scalability improvements for our notifications, alerting, and ML infrastructure
- Collaborate with middleware teams on caching strategies to improve performance on pages with many charts
- Improve quality of our anomaly detection models
- Own the technical infrastructure roadmap for the Workspaces team
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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