Amplitude

Senior Platform Engineer

Amplitude
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2 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.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorArgo CDAWSDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmKubernetesPythonTerraform

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About Amplitude

501-1,000 employees

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