Amplitude
Staff Platform Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$23,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- You'll operate across team boundaries - partnering with product engineering, fellow Staff+ engineers, and engineering leadership to make Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure effortless across the entire engineering org.
- Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado.
- Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction - shape platform and domain-level technical strategy that improves developer experience, reliability, security, and cost, and lead the high-complexity, cross-cutting initiatives that deliver it with measurable impact for the organization.
- Drive clarity through ambiguity.
- Take on the most loosely-defined problems, validate the critical assumptions early, and create alignment with stakeholders across teams so others can move quickly and confidently - driving cross-team decisions to a timely close and escalating when needed.
- Build the AI-augmented platform.
- Design org-wide tooling, guardrails, and policy-as-code that help every engineer get more out of AI-assisted development - infra primitives an LLM can safely reason about and PR against, automated review, and standards that hold as AI changes how code gets written.
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code standards for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and emerging tooling - setting the patterns other teams adopt and making the platform consumable enough that humans and agents can safely extend it.
- Instrument and operate. Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, set and raise SLOs for the team, own the dashboards, and drive improvements to the shared services and dependencies that move them.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex, cross-system P0s, lead incident response, and turn postmortems into durable platform improvements that prevent whole classes of failure.
- Identify causes, not symptoms. Find the architectural debt that slows multiple teams and build strategies to address it, and recognize when a system must evolve to meet new requirements, be re-platformed, or be deprecated and removed.
- Find and de-risk high-leverage bets - spot the opportunities others miss, write the proposals, get buy-in from stakeholders, and build POCs to de-risk them before committing the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, with deep hands-on time in cloud infrastructure.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering or related field
- A track record of leading high-complexity, cross-team infrastructure initiatives that delivered measurable improvements in reliability, developer productivity, performance, or cost.
- Deep production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem) and containerized applications at meaningful scale.
Nice to have
- Strong programming ability in at least one language (Golang or Python preferred) and fluency with IaC tooling (Terraform).
- Solid command of AWS core services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, S3) - GCP and/or Azure experience a plus - and networking/security fundamentals.
Skills
- AI agents are first-class users alongside humans:
Compensation
- $220,000 - $331,000 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: $198,000 - $299,000 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: $198,000 - $299,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Company info
- Connect the platform to customers and the business by translating customer and product needs into platform investments on the roadmap, and instrumenting the feedback loops that keep the platform aligned with what teams actually need.
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