Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Enterprise Foundation
About The Position
Amplitude is hiring a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer for its Enterprise Foundation team, which builds the platform foundations enterprise customers rely on to operate Amplitude at scale. These include permissions and access control, enterprise identity and administration, alerts, exports, and shared services. The role is based in a hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco, California, or Vancouver, Canada. Working with Product Management and Design, you will define, build, and ship end-to-end features and platform capabilities that make Amplitude secure, governable, and dependable for large organizations. You will own work from technical and product direction through delivery, rollout, migration, and ongoing operation, with attention to reliability, performance, security, correctness, and user experience. The team plans for reliability, migrations, support, and incident response alongside roadmap delivery. The Senior Engineer will help strengthen and scale the platform, lead high-impact projects, contribute to technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and improving robust, scalable backends and developing interactive, user-facing applications.
- Understanding of the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications.
- Backend experience with application backends, microservices, and high-throughput systems.
- Experience with, or strong interest in, authentication, authorization, permissions models, or other enterprise-grade platform capabilities.
- A track record of safely migrating and evolving critical systems with minimal customer impact.
- Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Exceptional communication skills, adaptability to changing requirements, and a proven record of successful delivery.
- Ability to synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create significant engineering impact.
- Desire to learn and grow in web development.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and strong automated-testing practices.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with React, TypeScript, Python, NestJS, and Temporal.
- Interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product Management and Design to turn enterprise customer needs into well-scoped engineering solutions.
- Own end-to-end project delivery, from design through rollout, migration, and ongoing operation.
- Design and build reliable services and APIs, accounting for security, correctness, and blast radius.
- Participate in on-call duties, incident response, and the long-term reliability of owned systems.
- Contribute to performance optimization and scaling efforts.
- Lead high-impact projects and contribute to the team's technical direction.
- Mentor and support the success of other engineers on the team.
Benefits
- Equity and other forms of compensation.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; employee premiums are fully employer-paid on select plans.
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay per pay period, up to $2,000 annually.
- Flexible time off and paid holidays.
- Monthly wellness stipends and monthly commuter transit/parking stipends.
- Quarterly learning and development stipends.
- New-hire home office equipment stipend.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Carrot fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
- Back-up child care support.
- No-cost employee access to Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- Mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
