Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers build better products and digital experiences. Our infrastructure teams build and operate the backend systems that power Amplitude's products at massive scale — handling more than 1 trillion events per month. We work on the systems that move, store, transform, and serve customer data: real-time and batch ingestion, identity resolution, data import and export connectors, privacy and compliance, and the operational reliability of everything in between. 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 with close to zero downtime. You'll work closely with Product and partner engineering teams to shape the roadmap and turn customer needs into reliable, well-architected systems. Our stack is primarily Java and Python, running on Kafka, Temporal, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Snowflake, 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.
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 building backend infrastructure, solving challenging problems, and iterating quickly
- Previous experience in distributed systems and large-scale backend services
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers is a plus
- Previous experience with stream processing, message queues, or data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka) is a plus
- Previous experience operating production systems on Kubernetes or running infrastructure as code with Terraform is a plus
Responsibilities
- Take infrastructure projects from ideation to production
- Design and build highly reliable, maintainable backend services that scale with our customer base
- Optimize the performance and cost of our data infrastructure as volume continues to grow
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
- 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)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
