Senior Software Engineer, Data Pipeline

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . 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. 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 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. About The Role & Team The Data Pipeline team owns the core event ingestion and processing infrastructure that powers Amplitude's analytics product — handling more than 1 trillion events per month. We build and operate the systems responsible for real-time event ingestion, batch data ingestion, user identity resolution, privacy and GDPR compliance (user deletion, app deletion, event TTL, and self-serve data deletion), and the reliability of the pipeline end-to-end. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll take on complex infrastructure challenges: designing for extreme throughput, optimizing for millisecond latencies, and building resilient systems that run at close to zero downtime. You'll also work closely with Product and customers to shape the strategy and roadmap for our core product and new features. Our stack is primarily Java and Python, running on Kafka, Temporal, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Kubernetes, and Terraform. This is a senior role, so beyond your own delivery you'll be a technical anchor for the team: leading design discussions, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for how we build. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: Take product ideas from ideation to implementation Develop highly reliable and maintainable backend services that expand the capabilities of our analytics product Optimize the performance and scale of our data ingestion and processing infrastructure to handle ever-increasing volume Collaborate with Product and Design to iterate on our product Lead engineering discussions and apply and advocate for engineering best practices Drive design and code reviews Mentor and contribute to the success of engineers across the team

Requirements

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another related technical field
5+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering role, with 2+ years working in Java
Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design
Passionate about data processing, solving challenging problems, and iterating quickly
Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing, and analytics

Nice To Haves

Experience leading or mentoring engineers is a plus
Previous experience with real-time stream processing (e.g. Kafka) is a plus

Responsibilities

Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
Develop highly reliable and maintainable backend services that expand the capabilities of our analytics product
Optimize the performance and scale of our data ingestion and processing infrastructure to handle ever-increasing volume
Collaborate with Product and Design to iterate on our product
Lead engineering discussions and apply and advocate for engineering best practices
Drive design and code reviews
Mentor and contribute to the success of engineers across the team

Benefits

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
Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
unlimited PTO
10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary)
medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans
a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan