Staff Software Engineer - DevX

Socket.dev; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Excellent Medical, Dental & Vision

Flexible time off

Wellness stipends

Parental leave

Job summary

Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – DevX in Vancouver. You will bridge infrastructure and application thinking, set architecture for our developer platform, and accelerate how teams ship code in the cloud.

This high-leverage role requires hands-on leadership, mentorship of senior engineers, and a focus on developer tooling, CI/CD improvements, and scalable environments with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Staff-level engineering experience and impact.
• Full-stack, infra-leaning skills with backend strengths.
• Experience moving development workflows to the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes).
• A track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure to improve velocity.
• Hands-on experience with agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows.
• Strong judgement and clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture for the developer platform and drive cloud-first workflows.
• Lead software factory initiatives and accelerate engineering velocity.
• Mentor senior staff through design reviews and pairing.
• Own cross-team standards and roadmaps for DevX tooling.

Skills

Staff-level engineering experience

Backend and systems

Cloud development

Developer tooling

AI-powered workflows

Strong writing

Tools

CI/CD

VMs

Sandboxes

Job description

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in‑class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About the Team

DevX owns engineering velocity at Amplitude: build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. We're building a software factory: automated workflows that remove manual bottlenecks from how engineers ship code.

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – Vancouver, Canada) who bridges infrastructure and application thinking and can accelerate how the whole team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud. You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead our software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud‑first workflows.

This is a high‑leverage, low‑oversight role. You'll own initiatives end to end, from an ambiguous problem to production, and set technical direction for a foundational team.

What You’ll Do

• Cloud development platform: Unify and scale our existing local, remote, and ephem? Make it fast and reliable for engineers and AI agents to provision environments, build, test, debug, and validate changes, with reproducible test data and clear access controls.
• Software factory: Find the biggest bottleneck in the engineering workflow, automate it, then move to the next one. This increasingly means building the sandboxes and tooling that let AI agents do the work directly, not just assist with it.
• Developer experience & tooling: Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. Drive down build/CI time, deploy risk, and feedback latency.
• Technical leadership: Set direction and standards, turn ambiguous problems into roadmaps, and mentor senior/staff engineers through design review and pairing.

What We’re Looking For

• Staff-level engineering experience and impact.
• Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side.
• Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes).
• A track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity.
• Hands‑on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight.
• Strong judgment, clear writing, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority.

Nice to Have

• Monorepo tooling or large‑scale platform migrations.
• Agent harness infrastructure: eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• 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)

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We’re a global and fast‑growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

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