Staff Software Engineer - Android DX

Amplitude • San Francisco, CA

7h • Hybrid

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.
The Developer Experience (DX) team at Amplitude builds and maintains the foundations that power how developers integrate, extend, and trust Amplitude across platforms. Our mission is to make Amplitude’s SDKs reliable, easy to adopt, and a joy to build on, so customers can confidently instrument their products and unlock insights at scale.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Android to play a key technical leadership role on our DevEx team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of Amplitude’s core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, and serve as the Android platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Experiment, Guides, and Surveys rely on.
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the Android platform, driving cross-SDK architecture, improving performance and reliability, and raising the bar for developer experience across Amplitude’s mobile ecosystem.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on Android development.
• Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java, and experience with modern Android APIs and tooling.
• Experience designing public APIs with a strong focus on stability and backward compatibility.
• Experience debugging complex issues across a wide range of Android devices and OS versions.
• Familiarity with performance profiling, memory management, and concurrency on Android.

Nice To Haves

• A strong focus on developer experience and empathy for the engineers who use your work.
• A track record of technical leadership where others look to you for guidance and decision-making.
• Strong judgment in making tradeoffs between API design, performance, backward compatibility, and speed of delivery.
• Comfort working across team boundaries and influencing without direct authority.
• A high bar for code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability.
• The ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Amplitude’s Android SDK platform.
• Own and drive development of core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and ease of use.
• Act as the Android platform expert and trusted partner for other SDK teams (Experiment, Guides, Surveys), enabling them to build on shared foundations safely and efficiently.
• Design and evolve shared infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions that scale across multiple Android SDKs.
• Collaborate closely with Product, and Customer Support to ensure SDKs meet real customer needs.
• Lead cross-team technical discussions, reviews, and architectural decisions that span multiple SDKs.
• Improve developer experience through better APIs, documentation, tooling, testing strategies, and sample apps.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall quality and effectiveness of the team.

Benefits

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid 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)​

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level