engineering
Posted May 8Senior Software Engineer - SDK
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- build tooling to scale SDK maintenance own developer experience end-to-end
- Build and maintain SDKs across many languages (e.g. TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, Swift, Rust)
- Optimize SDK for latency, performance, bundle size, resource load
- Create external-facing agents that take advantage of the signals collected by our SDKs
- Build integrations with third parties
- Drive high engineering standards while knowing when speed beats perfection.
- Create a culture where people love the work, move fast, and deliver real outcomes. You Might Be a Great Fit If: •
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.
- experience of Amplitude itself. We're building a new kind of SDK team:
- We're recruiting AI-assisted SDK wizards , engineers who: learn new languages quickly use AI to accelerate development
- Use AI to scale SDK development - build systems that allow a small team to maintain many SDKs Own developer
- Experience building SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms.
- Experience across multiple language ecosystems
- Experience building platform tooling or code generation systems Why This Team, Why Now?
- AI-augmented engineering - help define the future of SDK development
- 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.
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: $165,000 - $247,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- New York City salary range: $183,000 - $276,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Salary range: $183,000 - $276,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- California salary range: $165,000 - $247,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Washington 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 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.
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.
- At Amplitude, millions of developers instrument their products to understand how users behave. The first code they write with Amplitude is almost always through an SDK. That means our SDKs are not just integrations, they are the developer
- Most companies hire SDK engineers per language. We don't.
- This role has unusually large scope and autonomy What You'll Work On
- experience - improve how developers integrate with Amplitude
- Huge scope - own SDKs used by thousands of developers
- Polyglot engineering - work across many ecosystems