Senior Software Engineer, Analytics Compute Platform

Amplitude; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent health insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible time off

Wellness stipends

Parental benefits

ESPP

Mental health resources

Equity eligible

Job summary

Amplitude is a digital analytics platform that helps teams capture data and derive insights to drive product growth. We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Analytics Compute Platform Team and own core parts of the compute engine and data model.

You’ll collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams to deliver fast, reliable analytics at scale and ship features end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Backend or distributed systems engineering experience, ideally touching OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure.
• Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on.
• Comfort reasoning about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use and making deliberate calls between them.
• A track record of owning ambiguous, cross‑team projects end‑to‑end rather than just executing well‑scoped tickets.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills; this team's work only matters in the context of the products built on top of it.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude's product suite.
• Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table.
• Help unify and evolve our core data model, including how non-event data is represented alongside event data.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine.
• Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through rollout.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

SQL

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Tools

OLAP databases

Query engines

Job description

Amplitude is a digital analytics platform that helps teams capture data and derive insights to drive product growth. We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Analytics Compute Platform Team and own core parts of the compute engine and data model.

You’ll collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams to deliver fast, reliable analytics at scale and ship features end-to-end.