Amplitude

Amplitude

Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure )

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$12k-$20kDetected 3 days ago
JavaC++Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewRedisDynamoDBBigQuerySnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformKafkaAgentic AIA/B TestingSystems EngineeringLeadershipMentoring

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Level II$165,1312 entries
Level III$193,1493 entries
Level IV$221,1874 entries

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About the role

  • Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2's Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.
  • About the Role & Team Every AI insight, every experiment, every cohort at Amplitude starts with a query.
  • Our in-house OLAP engine, Nova, processes trillions of events in real time - turning raw behavioral data into fast, trustworthy answers that power decisions for thousands of product teams worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve core query engine infrastructure
  • Design and implement new capabilities as Nova expands to support more warehouse-imported data types, such as metrics, profiles, and dimensions.
  • Design for high-throughput automated query workloads - as AI agents become a primary source of queries, ensure Nova's architecture supports sustained, concurrent, and programmatic query patterns at scale.
  • Drive cost and performance at scale
  • Own and execute projects that materially reduce infrastructure cost - compute, storage, network, and memory - while maintaining or improving latency and throughput.
  • Profile and optimize JVM performance: GC tuning, memory management, concurrency, and data layout decisions that compound at our scale.
  • Build guardrails and observability to catch expensive or pathological queries before they impact the system.
  • Strengthen Nova's reliability posture: identify systemic failure modes, drive durable fixes, and raise the bar on how we detect and respond to production issues.
  • Lead the design and execution of multi-month projects that improve Nova's architecture, performance, or capabilities.
  • Contribute to technical direction through design docs, architecture discussions, and code reviews - helping the team make principled tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of industry experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with depth in distributed data systems.
  • Track record of driving significant cost optimization on cloud infrastructure at scale (compute, storage, network).
  • Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure - AWS (S3, DynamoDB, EC2), Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, Kubernetes, Terraform - or strong equivalents.
  • Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python.
  • You are an experienced systems engineer who:
  • Requirements
  • Hands-on experience building or extending analytical/OLAP systems - query engines, columnar storage, large-scale data processing frameworks, or equivalent.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals: distributed systems (partitioning, replication, consistency, failover), data structures and algorithms, concurrency and multi-threading, performance optimization.
  • Demonstrated technical influence beyond your immediate team: leading design discussions, driving cross-team alignment, mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

  • Experience with specific OLAP or query engine systems: Druid, ClickHouse, Presto/Trino, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar.
  • Deep JVM expertise - GC tuning, profiling, memory optimization at production scale.
  • Experience with columnar data formats and encodings (Arrow, Parquet, ORC, or custom formats).
  • Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, or event-driven data systems.
  • Contributions to open-source data infrastructure projects or published work in the data systems space.
  • Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
  • Growth Mindset: We're tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
  • Other fun facts about Amplitude:

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)

Benefits

  • Amplitude's Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):
  • We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
  • We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
  • We're a global and fast-growing team!

Company info

  • Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off, ​p​aid 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), home office equipment (annual), and much more
  • Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 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 and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​
  • 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.
  • We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who wants to go deep on both the engine internals and the infrastructure underneath it.
  • Our customers love us!
  • We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
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