Staff Software Engineer - DevX

amplitude; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 149.000 - 227.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

Benefits eligibility

Unlimited PTO (WA)

401(k) retirement plan

Zusammenfassung

amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set architecture for the developer platform and lead factory initiatives. You will push for cloud-first workflows, reduce build times, and mentor engineers in design and pairing. This role emphasizes high leverage with end-to-end ownership of ambiguous problems.

The candidate should ship developer tooling and platform infrastructure that measurably improve velocity, including AI-powered engineering workflows with responsible oversight.

Qualifikationen

• Staff-level engineering experience with measurable impact.
• Strong backend and systems fundamentals.
• Experience moving development workflows to the cloud (VMs, remote envs, sandboxes).
• Track record shipping developer tooling/platform infra that boosts velocity.
• Hands-on experience with agentic/AI-powered engineering workflows with human oversight.

Aufgaben

• Unify and scale local and remote development environments across a polyglot codebase.
• Lead the software factory effort by automating bottlenecks and iterating.
• Build sandboxes and tooling enabling AI agents to operate directly.
• Own build systems, CI/CD, and internal tooling to reduce build time and deploy risk.
• Set technical direction, turn ambiguity into roadmaps, mentor senior engineers.

Kenntnisse

Staff-level impact

Infrastructure

Backend fundamentals

Cloud migration

Developer tooling

AI-powered workflows

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Jobbeschreibung

**Role overview**

Join the Developer Experience team as a Staff Software Engineer focused on engineering velocity at an AI-first digital analytics platform. You'll set architecture for the developer platform, lead software factory initiatives, and push development toward cloud-first workflows. This is a high-leverage, low-oversight role for someone who can take an ambiguous problem end to end into production.

**Responsibilities**

• Unify and scale local, remote, and ephemera development environments across a polyglot codebase, making provisioning, building, testing, and debugging fast and reliable for engineers and AI agents
• Lead the software factory effort by finding the biggest workflow bottleneck, automating it, and moving to the next one
• Build sandboxes and tooling that enable AI agents to operate directly, not just assist
• Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling, driving down build time, deploy risk, and feedback latency
• Set technical direction and standards, turn ambiguous problems into roadmaps, and mentor senior and staff engineers through design review and pairing

**Requirements**

• Staff-level engineering experience and impact
• Full-stack skills leaning toward infrastructure, with strong backend and systems fundamentals
• Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud, including VMs, remote environments, preview branches, or 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, applied responsibly with human oversight
• Strong judgment, clear writing, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority

**Nice to have**

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

**Benefits and work setup**

• Location: hybrid San Francisco or remote within the United States
• Equity and benefits eligibility
• State‑specific base salary ranges, including $173,000 to $238,000 in Colorado and Washington, and $192,000 to $264,000 in California and New York City (inclusive of bonus or commission where applicable)
• Washington‑based employees receive unlimited PTO, ten to thirteen holidays annually, medical, dental, and vision PPO and CDHP plans, and a company‑sponsored 401(k) retirement plan