Amperity

Amperity

Lead Software Development Engineer - Infrastructure

Seattle, WA

Sponsorship not specified$196k-$270kDetected 13 days ago
CI/CDDevOpsMachine LearningSparkLLMsAgentic AIProduct StrategyHRISLeadershipCollaborationMentoringPlain Language

About the role

  • Team BASS is the "Swiss-army-knife" of our engineering organization, overseeing the critical intersection of developer productivity, shared service platforms, and high-scale Spark infrastructure.
  • You will be the team's strategic anchor, bringing the deep experience necessary to evaluate enterprise patterns.
  • You will establish a multi-year strategic North Star for our internal platforms.

Responsibilities

  • AI Frontier Leadership: Define the team-wide philosophy on how AI changes how we build, moving beyond productivity tools to platform-level engineering shifts.
  • AI Strategy & Agentic Evolution for BASS: As the Lead SDE for BASS, you will define the 2-3 year AI North Star for our internal platforms. You will anticipate how frontier AI and agentic workflows shift our approach to Build, Automation, Spark, and Services.
  • Agentic DevOps & CI/CD: Architect systems where AI agents autonomously identify build failures, resolve dependency conflicts, and improve pipelines.

Requirements

  • You have experience with major architectural decisions that proved correct over multi-year horizons.
  • Technical leadership experience with experience leading architectural strategy for high-scale, distributed systems.
  • Expertise in large-scale data processing (Spark or a similar distributed framework), with the ability to evaluate complex enterprise patterns and explain the "why" behind architectural choices.
  • While we use Clojure, we value your ability to apply deep architectural principles to our language of choice.
  • Deep Technical Judgment: You have experience with major architectural decisions that proved correct over multi-year horizons.
  • Complex Problem Solver: People seek you out on the hardest problems and you can cut through technical complexity to reach the right answer quickly.
  • Practitioner-level knowledge of AI/ML: Experience with integration of AI/ML best practices, specifically how to leverage LLMs and agentic workflows for infrastructure automation and developer velocity.

Skills

  • Interesting Problems

Compensation

  • Base Salary: $196,000-$270,000.
  • Individual compensation within this range will depend on several factors, including your skills, experience, education/training, geographic location and the level at which you join.
  • Stock Options: The opportunity for ownership is an exciting part of Amperity's total compensation package. Every employee at Amperity receives a new-hire equity grant, commensurate with the scope of their position.

Benefits

  • We also offer self-managed PTO and the flexibility to do your best work in the way that works for you.
  • For more details on our benefits, please see our US Benefits & Perks Guide.
  • Lead the full architectural health of the BASS platform, connecting technical decisions to multi-year horizons and organizational strategy.
  • Experience working with diverse partners to translate technical tradeoffs into outcomes that serve both the business and the long-term health of the platform.

Company info

  • About Amperity-Why This, Why Now
  • Most customer data is a lie by omission.
  • Every consumer brand wants to know its customers.
  • Unfortunately, almost none actually do.
  • Data is scattered across a dozen systems, half of it contradicts the other half, and "insights" teams are forced to act on incomplete guesses.
  • We started Amperity ten years ago because that gap-between what a brand believes about its customers and what is true-is the most expensive problem in the industry, and nobody had solved it.
  • With a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck, we did.
  • Our patented identity resolution takes billions of messy, conflicting records and resolves them into an accurate picture of a real human being-in hours, not months.
  • That's not a feature; it's the foundation everything else stands on.
  • It's why more than 400 brands -like Alaska Airlines, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, DICK'S Sporting Goods, Virgin Atlantic, and Brooks Running-trust us with the one thing they can't afford to get wrong, and why IDC named us a Leader in the category in 2026.
  • Now we're doing something harder.
  • We're rebuilding Amperity as an AI-first company-not bolting a chatbot onto old software, but putting agents at the center of how customer data actually gets used.
  • We shipped the industry's first identity resolution agent, then the first enterprise Customer Data Agent that turns a plain-language question into a live segment without waiting on an engineering queue.
  • Seek out team-level ambiguity and turn company-level strategic uncertainty into executable engineering plans.

Equal opportunity

  • Amperity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Mentor and Multiplier: Shift focus from personal execution to team outcomes, raising the execution standard of those around you through sponsorship and feedback.
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