Amplitude · 3 months ago
Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$213K/yr - $368K/yrAmplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers build better products and digital experiences. The Engineering Manager will lead the Infra Platform team, ensuring daily tactical success while evolving infrastructure and developer experience through technical leadership and hands-on contributions.
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Responsibilities
Lead and manage the Infra Platform team of engineers, fostering a culture of business impact, ownership, accountability, and customer-centricity
Provide technical leadership in Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tooling, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code — guiding the team with credible insights and judgment
Spend ~30% of your time hands on - code contributions will very much be part of the day to day. We have tools written in Go, Python, Node, Javascript, etc
Drive AI transformation in developer experience by identifying and implementing ways to use AI/LLMs beyond code generation — such as automating Platform onboarding, using AI Ops to auto-heal systems, or other abstractions that simplify developer workflows and eliminate copy/paste patterns
Own people management responsibilities: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching, and ensure engagement across the team. Run performance reviews, hold team members accountable to growth plans, and make promotion and compensation recommendations. Recognize and reward progress, celebrate successes, and ensure engineers feel supported and challenged
Drive alignment within a team of strong, experienced engineers — facilitating healthy debate, making trade-offs, and ensuring the team delivers cohesive solutions
Ensure high code quality and engineering standards by actively reviewing, providing feedback, and spotting quality trends at both the individual and team level
Partner cross-functionally with Security Engineering, FinOps, and Product Engineering teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions that benefit all of Engineering and/or our products
Contribute to strategic direction of the platform organization, while ensuring day-to-day operational success and tactical execution
Qualification
Required
Proven leadership experience managing a team of senior/staff-level engineers, ideally in a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience domain
Strong technical background in cloud-native infrastructure: Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tools, CI/CD, observability, infra-as-code (Terraform or equivalents)
Ability to judge and coach technical quality — not necessarily by writing every line of code, but by understanding engineering trade-offs and maintaining high standards
Transformational leadership mindset with a track record (or strong passion) for leveraging AI/LLMs to improve developer productivity and platform tooling
Customer-centricity: Demonstrated success in building platforms that internal engineers love to use
Growth mindset: Both for yourself and for your team. Track record of mentoring, coaching, and promoting talent
Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a track record of partnering across engineering and security teams
Preferred
Experience scaling platforms in AWS and Kubernetes-based environments
Familiarity with FinOps practices and optimizing cloud cost efficiency
Prior experience leading infrastructure or platform org transformations
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)
Company
Amplitude
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Founded in 2012
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$311.48MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalGICIVP
2021-09-28IPO
2021-08-01Secondary Market· $4.6M
2021-06-09Series F· $150M
Leadership Team
Spenser Skates
CEO, Co-Founder
Curtis Liu
Co-founder, CTO
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