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Posted 14 hours agoSenior Software Engineer; Analytics Infrastructure
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine
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 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 •
- Experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or other data-modeling abstractions
- Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines •
- Experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows Example projects you might work on
- Extending SQL as an interface into Amplitude's data lets AI agents, third-party tools, and warehouse-native workflows query Amplitude data directly and reliably.
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 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.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; this team's work only matters in the context of the products built on top of it Bonus points for •
- 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 ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off, ​p​aid 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 legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude California: California salary range: $167,000 - $230,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)
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.
- Every chart, insight, and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer that this team owns.
- Our team sits between Amplitude's front-end analytics products/ rest APIs/ MCPs and Nova, our proprietary analytics database, and owns the compute API that translates a user's question into a fast, correct answer.
- 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.
- Day to day, you'll work closely with engineers on data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and various product teams, since they're all consumers of what we build.
- Help unify and evolve our core data model, including how non-event data (profile properties, lookup tables, etc.) is represented alongside event data