TEST - Senior Software Engineer
AmplitudeAmplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build 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 in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.
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.
About The Role & Team
The Data Management team's mission is to give customers discoverable, understandable, and secure data they can trust. As a member of the Data Management team, you will own features around different aspects of customers' data including planning and instrumentation, discoverability and usage, clean up, enrichment, monitoring, and privacy/access. Amplitude does this by providing an expansive set of data tools, providing timely recommendations for keeping data clean using our AI Data Assistant, and automating these data governance jobs for customers.
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 Senior Engineer, you will:
Drive business impact through owning end-to-end delivery of projects
Operate with a focus on rapid but sustainable delivery through proper sequencing and experimentation
Advocate for the right priorities and communicate effectively with engineering leadership
Contribute to definition of SLAs and upholding operational excellence for applications and services that power the data management experience
Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
Get involved in performance optimization and scaling efforts
Work with with Product Management and Design to generate and turn novel ideas for solving customer problems into engineering solutions
Drive engineering discussions and engineering best practices
Mentor and contribute to the success of other engineers on the team
You'll be a great addition to the team if you:
5+ years of experience developing and improving on robust, scalable backends for user-facing applications
Strong backend experience with application backends, microservices, supporting high throughput ingestion systems, optimizing caching that balances speed and correctness
Understand the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications – frontend experience is a plus
Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to changing requirements
Constant desire to learn and grow in the field of web development
Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
Have experience managing CI/CD pipelines
Strong practitioner of automated testing
Have familiarity with the following: (Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Python)
Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
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: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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.
Our values:
At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.
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
401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 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
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
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.
We’re 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.