3 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact platform projects that improve developer experience, reliability, security, testing, and safe deployment practices.
- Design AI-augmented platform tooling, infrastructure primitives, automated review workflows, and policy-as-code guardrails.
- Own infrastructure-as-code for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and related tooling.
- Evolve the CI/CD platform using Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and GitHub Actions.
- Drive observability using Datadog and Amplitude, owning dashboards and service-level objectives.
- Participate in on-call and lead incident response when needed, converting postmortems into durable improvements.
- Reduce operational toil and technical debt through pragmatic remediation plans.
- Partner with product engineering teams to translate product needs into platform features.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, onboard teammates, and improve the team’s use of AI-assisted development.
- Shape the platform roadmap by identifying and scoping high-leverage opportunities.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with substantial hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
- A B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes and containerized applications at meaningful scale, including environments such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-premises deployments.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, with Golang or Python preferred, and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform.
- Working knowledge of AWS services including EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, and S3, along with networking and security fundamentals.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem, including Argo, Helm, Backstage, and Envoy.
- A record of delivering projects that measurably improved reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
- Interest in using or building AI-assisted infrastructure development tools.
- Strong communication, collaborative problem-solving, ambiguity navigation, data-driven decision-making, and continuous-learning skills.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are offered.
- For Washington-based employees: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually, medical, dental, and vision PPO and CDHP plans, and a company-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
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About Amplitude
Amplitude builds a product analytics and digital experience platform for product, data, and marketing teams, delivered as a SaaS subscription. Its suite spans analytics, experimentation and feature management, session replay, and voice-of-customer tools used to analyze, test, and optimize user journeys. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Amplitude trades on Nasdaq (AMPL) and serves thousands of customers, including brands like Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square.