Engineering Manager, Data Connections

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

15d•$227,000 - $381,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Connections team at Amplitude is responsible for managing the ingestion and egress of behavioral and customer data. This includes importing data from cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and cloud object storage (S3, Azure Blob Storage), as well as pushing enriched event data to warehouses, object storage, streaming destinations, and downstream advertising and marketing platforms. The team handles batch and streaming pipelines processing billions of events daily, ensuring reliable connections across diverse customer systems, secure credential management, and meeting stringent latency and reliability targets. Recent projects include launching new warehouse export destinations, migrating import pipelines to a durable workflow engine, building low-latency streaming export, and supporting cross-region and cross-cloud storage. The role involves leading a team of approximately 10 engineers, reporting to the Head of Data Platform, and being accountable for the team's roadmap, reliability, and individual growth. The technology stack includes Java, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, and Snowflake, running on AWS and GCP.

Requirements

2+ years leading engineers, as a manager or as a tech lead
6+ years building backend, data, or infrastructure systems
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)
A track record of improving reliability, latency, or cost for systems in production
Clear communication with engineers and non-engineers alike, especially when something has gone wrong

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Set the direction and roadmap for data import and export, with clear priorities and tradeoffs you can explain to engineers, PMs, and customers
Lead, coach, and grow a team of around 10 engineers — hiring, career development, feedback, and performance
Partner with your tech leads on architecture across ingestion, transformation, and delivery, without becoming the bottleneck for every decision
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
Work directly with Product, Design, and other Data Platform teams to ship end-to-end
Get involved personally in significant customer onboardings and escalations

Benefits

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
Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Mentorship programs
Management training
Wellness initiatives
Charitable giving grant
Paid volunteer time off
Unlimited PTO
10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary)
medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans
company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan