Senior Software Engineer, Amplitude
$167-252k
OTE
Listed range is inclusive of bonus. + Employee Stock Purchase Program + Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$167-252k
OTE
Listed range is inclusive of bonus. + Employee Stock Purchase Program + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Have B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Have over 5 years of experience in a Software Engineering role
- Have defined, managed, and scaled AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools
- Have a solid background in developing application services, APIs, and maintaining testing, monitoring, isolation, and SLAs processes
- Have experience with both relational (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Dynamo, Redis)
- Have designed, operated, and maintained large-scale distributed systems in production
- Have leveraged customer feedback and architectural insights for significant engineering contributions
- Have proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, TypeScript
- Have knowledge of columnar OLAP databases
- Have a fundamental understanding of front-end technologies and frameworks
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our backend focused team responsible for the API's, services and data stores that power the core analytics product at Amplitude
- The ideal candidate should be excited about mentoring engineers, care about performance, leading technical design discussions, being hands-on with the code, and caring about getting the details right
- In this role, you will collaborate with a variety of teams all across the company
- Your comprehensive understanding of the app will contribute to our diverse product strategy, encompassing everything from core analytics to experimental integration and session replay
- Your work at Amplitude will be marked by close collaborations with our product and design teams, GTM, and direct engagement with our customers to shape the future of our products and features
- Transform product ideas from conception to implementation
- Enhance our analysis experience using technologies like TypeScript, Python, Rest/GraphQL, and databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis
- Elevate our application architecture
- Foster collaboration with product and design teams, and other engineering groups
- Lead and mentor in engineering discussions, advocating best practices
- Actively participate in design and code reviews
- Innovate in building a top-tier analytics backend through thoughtful abstractions
- Tackle production issues across various services and levels of our infrastructure
- Drive enhancements in our core analytics product, optimizing development and iteration cycles
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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