Software Engineer II, Analytics Compute Platform Team

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

2d•$86,000 - $131,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Amplitude is hiring a Software Engineer II for its Analytics Compute Platform Team. The team owns the compute layer between Amplitude’s product experiences, APIs, and MCPs and its analytics database, including the compute API that converts users’ questions into fast, correct answers. The role collaborates with engineers across Data Management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, and other product teams, as well as the Query team. The engineer will own small-to-medium-complexity projects end to end in a rapidly changing system, with opportunities to grow through meaningful technical work, feedback, and collaboration with experienced engineers. The work includes developing query capabilities and shared services, improving reliability and performance, supporting safe system migrations, developing expertise in parts of the platform, and connecting technical work to customer needs. The position is hybrid in San Francisco. It is eligible for equity, benefits, and other forms of compensation. Listed base salary ranges vary by location: Colorado $86,000–$118,000; New York City $95,000–$131,000; and California $95,000–$131,000. No Washington salary figures are provided.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience building and running production services.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including writing clear, tested code and reasoning about failure, retries, and correctness in data-intensive systems.
Thoughtful problem-solving skills, including understanding context, decomposing complex problems, and asking clarifying questions.
A strong sense of ownership of quality, including instrumenting code, verifying outcomes, and responding quickly to issues.
Clear written and verbal communication, including raising risks early and explaining decisions.
Customer curiosity and willingness to understand customer problems before building; ability to use Amplitude and explain it to others.
Fluency with AI-assisted engineering, with responsibility for understanding and validating AI-generated results.
A habit of learning and improving, including seeking and acting on feedback and curiosity about adjacent system layers.

Nice To Haves

Experience with query engines, columnar or analytical databases, or large-scale data processing.
Experience with observability, SLOs, and on-call responsibilities for a production service.
Side projects, writing, or talks demonstrating public learning.

Responsibilities

Design and ship query capabilities, extension points, and shared libraries or services that help product teams deliver behavioral analyses.
Define tests, rollout plans, and observability for owned work; understand service SLOs and address problems at their root.
Profile query paths, identify performance bottlenecks using traces and experiments, and verify the impact of performance changes.
Participate in migrations of APIs, schemas, and services, using abstractions that make future changes safer and less costly.
Develop expertise in part of the system, answer teammates’ questions, and share knowledge through documentation and demos.
Understand customer problems, measure whether work improves customer experience, and bring customer insights back to the team.
Communicate risks early, explain decisions, give and receive feedback, and take responsibility for the quality and operation of shipped work.
Use AI tools to support learning, exploration, and testing while understanding and validating their outputs.

Benefits

Equity and other forms of compensation.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance; select plans have 100% employer-paid employee premiums.
401(k) retirement plan with employer matching 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 or 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.
Backup childcare support.
Mental health and wellness benefits, including no-cost access to Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions.
Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.