Staff Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Amplitude is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Analytics Compute Platform team. The team owns the compute layer between Amplitude’s analytics products, REST APIs, and MCPs and Nova, its proprietary analytics database. It builds the compute API that translates users’ questions into fast, correct answers, with a focus on performance, reliability, and flexibility. In this role, you will design and build core parts of the query and compute engine used across Amplitude’s product suite. You will evolve the compute API and semantic layer, help unify the core data model so non-event data can be represented alongside event data, and improve query planning and execution. You will collaborate with teams across the company and own projects from design through rollout. Example work includes redesigning query schemas and parallelization, improving caching and session analysis, extending SQL access to Amplitude data, enabling external-warehouse execution, bringing non-event data into the core model, and developing data access controls.

Requirements

Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally touching OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure.
Experience with SQL, query planning or execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on.
Ability to reason about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use, and make deliberate decisions.
A track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end-to-end rather than only executing well-scoped tickets.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems.
Experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or other data-modeling abstractions.
Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines.
Experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows.

Responsibilities

Design and build core parts of the query and compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude’s product suite.
Evolve the compute API and semantic layer so other engineering teams can build features on top of it and it can support a more generic table.
Help unify and evolve the core data model, including representing non-event data such as profile properties and lookup tables alongside event data.
Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine.
Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them.
Own projects end-to-end, from design through rollout.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees on select plans.
Flexible time off and paid holidays.
Stipends for wellness, commuter transit or parking, learning and development, and home office equipment.
Paid parental leave.
Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
Back-up child care support.
Mental health coaching and therapy sessions through Modern Health.
One Medical membership in select U.S. locations.
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay each pay period, up to $2,000 annually.
Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
Mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.