Amplitude
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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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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$131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 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 $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Evolve our CI/CD backbone (Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts, GitHub Actions) to make deploys faster, safer, and easier to reason about.
- Translate product needs into platform features by partnering closely with product engineering teams.
- Shape the roadmap by spotting high-leverage opportunities and scoping them to maximize impact.
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 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.
- As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values.
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
- Amplitude's Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field.
- Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
Company info
- 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.
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