engineering
Posted Apr 13Senior Software Engineer, Data Management
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Ship meaningful product end‑to‑end. Take ownership of well-scoped features and system improvements that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and the customer
- Build for scale and correctness.
- Build the foundations for trusted data.
- Help architect support for non-event data models — including entities, metrics, and dimensional data — so customers can govern their full data ecosystem within a unified taxonomy experience.
- Own fullstack delivery. Design and ship features spanning backend services, data pipelines, and the React/TypeScript product surfaces customers use daily.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and other engineering teams (e.g., Analytics, Experiment, Ingestion/Query, Session Replay) and engage with customers and account teams to ground decisions in real needs.
- Grow and help others grow. Participate in design and code reviews, share knowledge, and invest in your own development and that of teammates.
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.
- You will be at the forefront of transforming data governance from a manual chore into an automated, AI-driven infrastructure that powers our 'Ask AI' and Data Assistant capabilities.
- Work on capabilities such as a shared data health evaluation framework and APIs, event/property observability (anomalies, schema drift), safe clean‑up workflows, and metadata ingestion — often in collaboration with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams.
- Experience owning and delivering features that span backend services and user-facing product, including APIs and interactive UI in distributed, microservices architectures.
- Fullstack proficiency. Solid skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js and React/frontend frameworks) and/or Python, plus
- experience with AWS and infrastructure tooling.
- Experience with observability (metrics/logs/traces), automated testing, and CI/CD — and a habit of treating reliability as part of the job, not an afterthought.
- Customer focus. Ability to connect your work to customer outcomes and use data to validate that what you shipped actually helped.
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.
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.
- As a member of the team, you will contribute to the technical vision for how customers define, govern, and trust their data at massive scale.
- 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
- 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: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- New York City salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- California salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Washington salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 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.
- The Data Management team is building the Trust Engine that powers the entire product. We are moving beyond simple data entry to architecting a self-healing, intelligent data ecosystem.
- You will help design and build systems that govern the data lifecycle, including complex ingestion planning, semantic enrichment, and data observability — spanning backend infrastructure, APIs, and the product surfaces customers interact with directly.
- You are helping solve the hardest problem in analytics: proving that the data is right.
- The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure.
- Contribute to technical direction. Participate actively in design discussions, propose solutions to complex problems, and help define patterns and practices that raise the quality bar for the team.
- Uphold operational excellence. Instrument the services you build, contribute to SLO definitions, respond to incidents, and improve the reliability of systems you own.