Amplitude
Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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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.
- Our mandate: enable a highly performant, reliable, and flexible way to compute insights.
- Those three goals are often in tension the more flexible we make the system, the harder it is to keep it fast and simple, and a lot of the interesting engineering work on this team lives in that tradeoff.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude's product suite
- Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table
- Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through rollout
- Deeper session-based analysis - extending our session-analysis capabilities with new filters and formula support.
Requirements
- Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on
- Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems
Compensation
- $167,000 - $230,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Benefits
- 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
- The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we're tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform-we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We're super proud of what we've built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
- We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
- Some of our benefit programs include:
- Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed.
- Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we're tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform-we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action.
- This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth.
- We're super proud of what we've built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off, paid 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)
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