Staff Software Engineer

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

4h•$198,000 - $331,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—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 in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. As an organization, Amplitude delivers for its customers by living its values: humility, ownership, growth mindset, and customer centricity. Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions, striving to create an environment of inclusion focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection. At Amplitude, the company is building the operating system for digital products. While known as the leader in product analytics, the Experiment team is redefining how companies learn, iterate, and ship better experiences. Experiment is one of the fastest-growing and most strategic bets at Amplitude, sitting at the intersection of product, data, and decision-making. This Staff Product Engineer role is not a "take tickets and ship code" role; instead, the individual will operate as an owner, shaping both the product and the technical direction of a system used by some of the most sophisticated product teams in the world. The role involves working across the stack, including React frontend, Node.js, and Python backend, to build intuitive, high-performance experiences that make experimentation accessible, powerful, and trustworthy.

Requirements

Proven experience operating at a Staff-level scope. You’ve led large, ambiguous initiatives with significant business impact
Strong full-stack expertise (React + backend systems such as Node.js and/or Python)
A deep sense of ownership - you don’t wait for direction; you create it
Exceptional product taste - you care deeply about UX, details, and building things people love
An AI-native mindset - you actively use and experiment with the latest AI tools to amplify your impact and rethink how software gets built
Ability to balance speed and quality in a high-velocity environment
Strong judgment in technical trade-offs and system design

Nice To Haves

You think like a product builder first, engineer second
You’re constantly reinventing how you work, using cutting-edge tools and workflows to achieve outsized results
You’re energized by open-ended problems with no clear “right” answer
You hold a high bar, not just for your own work, but for the team and product as a whole
You turn ambiguity into clarity and momentum

Responsibilities

Own critical product surfaces end-to-end from ideation to production and beyond
Drive product direction in partnership with design and product leaders
Build and evolve systems across React, Node.js, and Python that scale with customer growth
Leverage modern AI tooling to dramatically accelerate development, prototyping, and iteration cycles
Raise the bar for engineering quality - code, architecture, and user experience
Lead by example - through hands-on development, technical mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making
Move fast on ambiguous problems, turning ideas into shipped, customer-facing value

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)
Competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers
Mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives
Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off
Unlimited PTO (for Washington state)
10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary, for Washington state)
Company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan (for Washington state)