engineering
Posted 2 hours agoEngineering Manager, Data Connections
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of around 10 engineers — hiring, career development, feedback, and performance
- Own reliability, SLOs, and cost efficiency for pipelines customers depend on daily
- Expand the set of destinations and sources we support, and make each new integration cheaper to build than the last
- A track record of improving reliability, latency, or cost for systems in production
Requirements
- 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.
- The Data Connections team owns how that data gets in and out — importing behavioral and customer data from cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery, from cloud object storage like S3 and Azure Blob Storage, and pushing enriched event data back out to warehouses, object storage, streaming destinations, and downstream advertising and marketing platforms.
- The stack is Java, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, and Snowflake, running on AWS and GCP. Responsibilities
- Experience with data integration or pipeline work — ETL/ELT, data warehouses, streaming, or batch processing at scale
- Comfortable with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Kafka, S3 or equivalent object storage, Terraform)
- Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar warehouses — as a builder or a heavy user •
- Experience with durable workflow engines such as Temporal •
- Experience with advertising or marketing platform integrations Our values:
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
Experience
- 2+ years leading engineers, as a manager or as a tech lead
- 6+ years building backend, data, or infrastructure systems •
Benefits
- Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions.
- 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.
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- 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), new hire home office equipment, and much more Excellent Parental
- benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- This role is eligible for equity,
- benefits and other forms of compensation.
- Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- New York City salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- California salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Washington salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 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 only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans.
- Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan. #LI-SA1 #LI-Hybrid
Contact
- Learn more at amplitude.com .
- Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ amplitude.com email address.
Additional details
- Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.
- As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values.
- 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 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.
- Amplitude is only as useful as the data inside it.
- Recent work includes launching new warehouse export destinations, migrating our import pipelines onto a durable workflow engine, building low-latency streaming export, and supporting cross-region and cross-cloud customer storage.
- You'll lead a team of around 10 engineers building this, reporting to our Head of Data Platform, and you'll be the person accountable for the roadmap, the reliability, and the growth of the people on it.
- Set the direction and roadmap for data import and export, with clear priorities and tradeoffs you can explain to engineers, PMs, and customers
- Partner with your tech leads on architecture across ingestion, transformation, and delivery, without becoming the bottleneck for every decision
- Work directly with Product, Design, and other Data Platform teams to ship end-to-end