Amperity

Amperity

Lead Software Development Engineer

Seattle, WA

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$260kDetected 13 days ago
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About the role

  • About Amperity-Why This, Why Now Most customer data is a lie by omission.
  • Data is scattered across a dozen systems, half of it contradicts the other half, and "insights" teams are forced to act on incomplete guesses.
  • With a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck, we did.

Responsibilities

  • Our goal is to build a highly impactful, generational business.
  • whether what we build moves the business.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading platform migrations or major architectural transitions (streaming experience a strong plus).
  • You can distinguish between problems that have well-trodden solutions from those that are genuinely unique, and the discipline to apply the former quickly so the team can focus on the latter.
  • Fluent in the capabilities of AI tooling, while balancing its limitations.

Compensation

  • Base Salary: $190,000-$260,000.
  • 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.
  • Every employee at Amperity receives a new-hire equity grant, commensurate with the scope of their position.
  • 100% employee healthcare coverage, transportation subsidies, a comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks, and other employee experience perks like events and activities, both in-person and remote.

Company info

  • You'll join Loom, the largest team at Amperity and the one at the heart of the platform.
  • Loom owns the primary services that define what Amperity is: identity resolution, real-time customer profiles, streaming data ingestion, and the foundational libraries that the engineering department builds on.
  • If Amperity is an operating system for customer data, Loom is the kernel.
  • Over the last year, the Loom team has built out the first version of the real-time stream processing to accompany the battle-hardened core batch processing system.
  • In your first year, the highest-priority goal is to help the teams apply the lessons learned thoughtfully to the broader platform.
  • This is not a greenfield rewrite.
  • It is the more interesting and more demanding challenge of evolving a large platform, without breaking what our customers depend on.
  • Loom operates with a large surface area and the work matters directly to customers.
  • We expect our engineers to be AI-forward, using AI tooling to remove barriers and bringing clear judgment about where it can and cannot move the needle.
  • You will report to the Senior Manager, Loom.
  • Interesting Problems
  • We're solving tough problems at the intersection of large-scale data, AI, and user experience.
  • Some of the challenges you will work on include:
  • You will lead the effort to unify batch and real-time event processing across core platform services.

Equal opportunity

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

This listing is sourced directly from Amperity's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.