Staff DevX Engineer - Cloud Platform & Tooling Leader

Amplitude; United States; Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

ESPP

Flexible PTO

Parental benefits

Job summary

Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – San Francisco) to bridge infrastructure and application thinking and accelerate how our team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud.

You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead the software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud-first workflows, owning initiatives end to end from ambiguous problems to production.

Qualifications

• Staff-level engineering experience and impact.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Cloud development platform: unify and scale our local/remote/epistemic environments across a polyglot codebase.
• Software factory: identify bottlenecks and automate; build sandboxes and tooling for AI agents to work directly.
• Developer experience & tooling: own build systems, CI/CD, environments, and internal tooling; reduce build/CI time and risk.
• Technical leadership: set direction, turn problems into roadmaps, mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Staff engineering

Full-stack infra

Cloud experience

Tools

CI/CD

VMs

Sandboxes

Job description

Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – San Francisco) to bridge infrastructure and application thinking and accelerate how our team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud.

You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead the software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud-first workflows, owning initiatives end to end from ambiguous problems to production.