3 months ago
Base Salary
$167k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build core components of the query and compute engine powering Amplitude’s product analytics
- Evolve the compute API and semantic layer to support more generic tables and downstream engineering features
- Unify the core data model for event data, profile properties, lookup tables, sessions, and other non-event data
- Improve query planning and execution performance, reliability, and scalability
- Partner with data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, frontend, and other product teams
- Own projects end to end from design through rollout
Requirements
- Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally involving OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure
- Experience with SQL, query planning and execution, or APIs used by many engineering teams
- Ability to make deliberate tradeoffs among flexibility, performance, and ease of use
- Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end to end
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
- Bonus: experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems
- Bonus: experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or other data-modeling abstractions
- Bonus: familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines
- Bonus: experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including 100% employer-paid premiums for employees on select plans
- Flexible time off and paid holidays
- Monthly wellness and commuter transit/parking stipends
- Quarterly learning and development stipend
- Annual home office equipment stipend
- 12–20 weeks of paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, and backup childcare support
- Mental health and wellness benefits, including Modern Health and One Medical access in select U.S. locations
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off
- Equity and other benefits are available
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.