Software Engineer II, AI Security

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

2d•$138,000 - $231,000

About The Position

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—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 by G2, 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. We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to help secure Amplitude’s emerging AI-powered features, from chatbots to agentic systems. This role is ideal for a software engineer who loves working at the intersection of AI, application security, and product development. You’ll work closely with developers, AI product teams, and security peers to evaluate risks in AI-driven features (such as LLM-based assistants, connectors, and agent integrations), guide secure design, and implement automated defenses across the stack. This is a hands-on role where you’ll help shape how we approach security for AI features at scale. You won’t just report issues, you’ll help fix issues and make it easier for others to avoid them. As a Software Engineer II, you will: As a Software Engineer II, you will be a key contributor to the team, involved in the full software development lifecycle from ideation to deployment. Your core responsibilities will include: Design and Implementation: Take product ideas and requirements from ideation to implementation, focusing on developing and maintaining backend services and components that expand the capabilities of our analytics product and semantic and data layers. System Scale and Performance: Design and implement distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability (best-in-class system availability) for our rapidly growing data and query volumes. Optimize performance to be blazingly fast across our data infrastructure. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to translate high-level requirements into working, user-facing features. Work with cross-functional teams to support multi-product integration initiatives. Technical Leadership & Quality: Actively participate in design discussions, contribute to the infrastructure roadmap, and conduct thorough code reviews. Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers/peers on engineering best practices and system knowledge sharing. Problem Solving: Utilize monitoring tools to quickly diagnose and resolve performance, correctness, and stability issues, ensuring a robust and reliable platform. Research complex technical topics from papers and open-source projects to devise innovative solutions. You'll be a great addition to the team if you possess a strong technical foundation and a passion for solving complex, large-scale problems.

Requirements

Experience: 2–3+ years of industry experience in a Software Engineering role, preferably focused on backend or data systems.
Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field.
Technical Foundation: A strong foundation in programming, data structures, algorithms, multi-threading programming, and software application design/system design.
Programming Proficiency: Hands-on experience and proficiency in at least one modern backend language, such as Python, Java, C++, Typescript or Go.
Systems Experience: Background in building high-performance, scalable backend systems and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providers.
Database Knowledge: Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
Soft Skills: Strong communication skills, collaboration skills, and an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Mindset: Passionate about solving challenging technical problems and iterating quickly.

Responsibilities

Design and Implementation: Take product ideas and requirements from ideation to implementation, focusing on developing and maintaining backend services and components that expand the capabilities of our analytics product and semantic and data layers.
System Scale and Performance: Design and implement distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability (best-in-class system availability) for our rapidly growing data and query volumes. Optimize performance to be blazingly fast across our data infrastructure.
Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to translate high-level requirements into working, user-facing features. Work with cross-functional teams to support multi-product integration initiatives.
Technical Leadership & Quality: Actively participate in design discussions, contribute to the infrastructure roadmap, and conduct thorough code reviews. Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers/peers on engineering best practices and system knowledge sharing.
Problem Solving: Utilize monitoring tools to quickly diagnose and resolve performance, correctness, and stability issues, ensuring a robust and reliable platform. Research complex technical topics from papers and open-source projects to devise innovative solutions.

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)
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.
unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans.
Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.