Software Engineer II — Analytics Compute Platform

Amplitude; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amplitude, the leading AI analytics platform, is seeking a backend engineer with 2–4 years of experience to own end-to-end, production-grade services. You’ll collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, session replay, experiment, and CDP teams to deliver reliable compute APIs.

You’ll grow quickly, be challenged with real problems, receive honest feedback, and work with strong engineers to learn from.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of backend engineering experience.
• Build and run production services with reliability.
• Ability to reason about failure, retries, and data correctness.
• Strong problem-solving and clear communication.
• Ownership of quality and observability.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering is a plus.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn from feedback.

Responsibilities

• Make new behavioural insights easier to build. Design and ship new query capabilities, extension points, and shared libraries/services that let product teams deliver new analyses in less time.
• Own the reliability of what you build. Define tests, rollout plans, and observability, know your service’s SLOs, and fix problems at the root.
• Keep real customer workloads fast. Profile query paths, find bottlenecks with traces and experiments, and verify that your changes helped.
• Help us change the system safely. Take part in migrations of APIs, schemas, and services, and learn how good abstractions make change cheaper.
• Become a go-to person. Build real expertise in part of the system, answer teammates’ questions, and share what you learn through docs and demos.
• Stay close to the customer. Understand the customer problem behind every project, measure whether your work made their experience better, and bring what you learn back to the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Reliability and observability

Problem solving

Clear communication

Ownership

AI-assisted engineering

Learning mindset

Job description

Amplitude, the leading AI analytics platform, is seeking a backend engineer with 2–4 years of experience to own end-to-end, production-grade services. You’ll collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, session replay, experiment, and CDP teams to deliver reliable compute APIs.

You’ll grow quickly, be challenged with real problems, receive honest feedback, and work with strong engineers to learn from.