Staff Software Engineer - DevX

Amplitude, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 331,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental and vision

Flexible time off

Parental benefits

401(k) matching

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Amplitude is a leading AI analytics platform empowering thousands of customers to build better products and digital experiences. The Staff Software Engineer – DevX will bridge infrastructure and product thinking, set the architecture for the developer platform, and drive the software factory to accelerate engineering velocity.

You’ll own end-to-end initiatives, from ambiguous problems to production, while mentoring senior engineers and shaping cloud-first workflows for the team in a hybrid San

Qualifications

• Staff-level engineering experience with impact.
• Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong backend and systems expertise.
• Experience moving a team’s development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes).
• Track record shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity.
• Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud development platform architecture and scale it for the engineering org.
• Lead the software factory initiative and accelerate development, testing, and cloud deployment.
• Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling to reduce build/CI time and deployment risk.
• Provide technical leadership, set direction, and mentor senior engineers through design reviews and pairing.

Skills

Staff-level experience

Full-stack infra

Cloud workflows

Dev tooling

AI workflows

Strong writing

Job description

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 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.

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 – San Francisco) 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 ephemer…

• 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.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado: Colorado range: $198,000 - $299,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals will work for Amplitude in New York City: New York City salary range: $220,000 - $331,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude California: California salary range: $220,000 - $331,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state: Washington salary range: $198,000 - $299,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

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Our values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.

• Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.

• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

We care about the well‑being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well‑being of our Ampliteers.

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

• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually

• 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), new hire home office equipment, and much more

• Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 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

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.

• We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and