Senior Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Backend
$240-360k
Inclusive of bonus + Eligible for equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$240-360k
Inclusive of bonus + Eligible for equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Have a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
- Have 10+ years of industry experience in a Software Engineering role
- Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
- Have designed, operated and maintained large distributed systems in production
- Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
- Have strong experience with one of: (Java, C++, C#, Go)
- Have experience designing and managing AWS compatible platforms or systems to achieve high volume, COGS competitive distributed data processing
- Have familiarity with one of: (Python, Javascript, Typescript)
- Have working knowledge of a columnar OLAP database
- Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
What the job involves
- We are looking for a backend engineer to help us:
- 100x our scale for ingesting and processing qualitative data to reliably serve the traffic from customers who are among the most visited websites globally
- Define the foundations for qualitative information storage and retrieval at Amplitude
- The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve cross-team alignment on technical design tradeoffs for the short, medium and long term
- Lead projects for features that have high business impact
- Lead the team on defining SLAs and upholding operational excellence for the SR ingestion systems
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
- Lead performance optimization and scaling efforts
- Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
- Develop components and services that expand the capabilities of our analytics product
- Participate and collaborate with Product and Design Team to iterate on our product
- Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices
- Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers
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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