Amplitude

Amplitude

Senior Platform Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$165k-$247kDetected 7 days ago
PythonGoGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityIncident ResponseCommunicationArgo CD

About the role

  • Amplitude's Cloud Platform team builds the systems that every Amplitude engineer relies on every day to ship code - and we're rebuilding them for the AI era. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll own medium-to-high-complexity platform projects end-to-end and help shape a platform where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans: kicking off deploys, opening pull requests against infrastructure, and triaging incidents, so a single engineer can get the throughput of a team.
  • You'll partner with Staff engineers and product teams to make Kubernetes effortless across the engineering org, building self-service automation and scalable AWS infrastructure that lets product teams ship faster, safer, and with less cognitive load. If you're excited about building the systems that other engineers will rely on every day, this role is for you.
  • Amplitude's Cloud Platform team builds the systems that every Amplitude engineer relies on every day to ship code - and we're rebuilding them for the AI era.

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact platform projects - design and ship capabilities that move the needle on developer experience, reliability, or security, and set the bar for quality, testing, and safe deployment practices.
  • Build the AI-augmented platform.
  • Design tooling and workflows that help engineers get more out of AI-assisted development - think infra primitives that are easy to reason about, automated review, and policy-as-code that keeps the guardrails strong as AI shifts how code gets written.
  • Own Infrastructure-as-Code for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and emerging tooling - and make it consumable enough that an LLM can safely PR against it.
  • Instrument and operate. Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, own dashboards and SLOs, and use the data to push reliability forward.
  • Participate in on-call, lead incident response when needed, and turn postmortems into durable platform improvements.
  • Mentor and multiply. Coach junior and mid-level engineers, support their growth, and onboard new teammates - including helping the team get more leverage out of AI-assisted development.
  • Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions.
  • We strive to create an environment of inclusion-one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection-that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, with serious hands-on time in cloud infrastructure.
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem) and containerized applications at meaningful scale.
  • Working knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, S3) and networking/security fundamentals.
  • Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem (Argo, Helm, Backstage, Envoy, and friends).
  • A track record of delivering projects that measurably improved reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
  • Strong communicator - you can break down complex topics for varied audiences and default to collaborative problem solving.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity by validating assumptions early and using data to de-risk technical decisions.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python preferred) and IaC tooling (Terraform).

Compensation

  • $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)

Benefits

  • A pragmatic, business-aligned engineering mindset and a habit of continuous learning.
  • $165,000 - $247,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

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