Staff Infra Engineer: Scalable OLAP Engine

Amplitude; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Flexible time off

Parental benefits

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Amplitude seeks a Staff Software Engineer to dive deep into Nova, our real-time OLAP engine, and the underlying cloud infrastructure. You will shape query planning, storage formats, and distributed compute while driving cost efficiency, reliability, and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and collaborate with product teams to translate technical solutions into customer value, all within a global company with strong DEI commitments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with depth in distributed data systems.
• Hands-on experience building or extending analytical/OLAP systems — query engines, columnar storage, large-scale data processing frameworks, or equivalent.
• Track record of driving significant cost optimization on cloud infrastructure at scale (compute, storage, network).
• Strong computer science fundamentals: distributed systems, data structures and algorithms, concurrency and multi-threading, performance optimization.
• Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure — AWS (S3, DynamoDB, EC2), Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, Kubernetes, Terraform — or strong equivalents.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python.
• Demonstrated technical influence beyond your immediate team: leading design discussions, driving cross-team alignment, mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and execution of multi-month projects to improve Nova's architecture, performance, or capabilities.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems thinking, production debugging, and system design.
• Collaborate with Product, Middleware, Data Pipeline, and other teams to translate Nova capabilities into customer value.
• Participate in on-call rotation to root-cause incidents and implement durable fixes.
• Contribute to capacity planning, safe rollout practices, and observability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Java

C++

Python

Cloud

Data processing

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Redis/ElastiCache

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Amplitude seeks a Staff Software Engineer to dive deep into Nova, our real-time OLAP engine, and the underlying cloud infrastructure. You will shape query planning, storage formats, and distributed compute while driving cost efficiency, reliability, and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and collaborate with product teams to translate technical solutions into customer value, all within a global company with strong DEI commitments.