Amplitude · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Management
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $286K/yr
7+ years expAmplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers build better products and digital experiences. The Staff Software Engineer in Data Management will drive the technical vision for data governance and build scalable systems to ensure data quality and reliability.
AnalyticsBig DataEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyProduct ManagementSaaSSchedulingSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive business impact end‑to‑end. Own delivery of cross‑team initiatives that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and developer velocity—scoping MVPs, sequencing work, and validating with real signals
Create clarity and shape strategy. Turn ambiguous problems into actionable plans; define technical direction, standards, and reusable tools that help multiple teams ship faster with confidence
Uphold operational excellence. Define and raise SLOs for services that power the data management experience; own instrumentation, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement
Scale systems and performance. Lead efforts to improve throughput for ingestion and governance workflows, reduce latency with the right caching patterns, and harden critical paths
Build the foundations for trusted data. Evolve platform capabilities such as a shared data health evaluation framework and APIs, event/property observability (anomalies, schema drift), safe clean‑up workflows, and metadata ingestion—often in partnership with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams
Partner across functions. Work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams (e.g., Analytics, Experiment, Ingestion/Query) and engage with customers and account teams to ground decisions in real needs and outcomes
Mentor and multiply. Raise the bar through design reviews, thoughtful code reviews, and coaching helping other engineers grow in judgment, systems thinking, and execution
Champion pragmatic delivery. Advocate for iterative milestones, canary/flagged rollouts, and data‑driven experimentation that balance speed with sustainability
Qualification
Required
Staff‑level impact in backend engineering. Track record of owning and delivering cross‑team systems in distributed, microservices architectures, including high‑throughput ingestion and caching that balances speed and correctness
Strong backend proficiency. Expertise in one or more of: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python, plus production experience with AWS and infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform, CDK)
Operational ownership. Experience defining/measuring SLOs, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and applying observability (metrics/logs/traces) and automated testing to keep systems reliable at scale
Customer focus. Ability to translate customer and account team signals into technical strategy and sequenced delivery, validating outcomes with data—not just intent
Engineering principles in action. Demonstrated Bias for Action, Impact > Effort prioritization, deep Technical Ownership, commitment to Customer Focus, and investment in Personal & Team Development
Excellent communication and alignment skills. Comfortable facilitating decisions across multiple stakeholders and creating crisp, shared understanding
Preferred
Nice to have. Domain experience in event analytics, data governance/taxonomy, metadata systems, RBAC/privacy, experimentation, or AI‑assisted automation
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)
Unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans
Company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan
Company
Amplitude
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
501-1000 employees
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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
Recent News
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