Staff Software Engineer- UI Foundations Team San Francisco, CA

Amplitude; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the UI Foundations Team to drive architectural decisions for our frontend platform and lead the build-out of autonomous, AI-agent-driven workflows that increase engineering velocity.

You will own frontend foundations, push performance forward, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with product and infra teams to deliver scalable frontend solutions at Amplitude.

Qualifications

• Real world software engineering experience at Staff level or equivalent.
• Deep frontend architecture expertise with React or similar.
• Strong infra/systems engineering instincts with build tooling and dev environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve frontend architectural foundations (module boundaries, micro-frontends, shared component infra).
• Diagnose and fix performance issues (bundle size, load time, runtime).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling used daily by engineers.
• Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and build AI-agent-driven automation to remove them.
• Set technical direction and standards for the frontend org; mentor senior engineers.
• Collaborate with product, design systems, and infra teams to solve real product pains.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

CI/CD

Performance optimization

DevTools

Mentorship

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Micro-frontend patterns

Job description

Staff Software Engineer- UI Foundations Team

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 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.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

Amplitude is the leading AI-first digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—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 Fall 2025 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.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

The UI Foundation team owns the frontend infrastructure that every product engineer at Amplitude builds on — architecture, performance, developer experience, tooling, and build systems. We're the team that makes shipping fast, reliable frontend code possible at scale, and we're increasingly focused on how AI agents can autonomously handle engineering workflows that used to require constant human intervention.

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who thinks like an infrastructure engineer but has deep fluency in frontend systems. You'll drive architectural decisions for our frontend platform, push performance and DevX forward, and lead the build-out of our "software factory" — a set of autonomous, AI-agent-driven engineering workflows that increase engineering velocity across the org.

This is a high-leverage, low-oversight role. You'll be setting technical direction for a foundational team, not just executing a roadmap someone else wrote.

What You'll Do

• Frontend architecture: Own and evolve the architectural foundations of our frontend platform — module boundaries, micro-frontend patterns, shared component/design-system infrastructure, and state management strategy.
• Application performance: Diagnose and fix systemic performance issues (bundle size, load time, runtime performance, rendering bottlenecks); establish performance budgets and guardrails that scale across teams.
• Developer experience & tooling: Build and maintain the build systems, local dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, linting/codegen, and internal tooling that other engineers depend on daily.
• Software factory / agentic workflows: Continuously identify the biggest bottleneck in the engineering workflow and build AI-agent-driven automation to remove it, then move to the next one. For example, once code and PR generation stopped being the constraint, the bottleneck shifted to validation — and that's the next thing to automate. This is an ongoing, iterative practice of finding where engineers are spending unnecessary manual effort and systematically eliminating it with agentic tooling.
• Technical leadership: Set technical direction and standards for the frontend org; mentor senior/staff-track engineers; review architecture proposals from other teams that touch shared frontend infrastructure.
• Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with product engineering teams, design systems, and platform/infra teams to make sure foundational investments actually solve real product-team pain points.

What We're Looking For

• Real world software engineering experience, with a track record operating at Staff level or equivalent scope/impact.
• Deep expertise in modern frontend architecture (React or equivalent component frameworks) combined with strong infrastructure/systems engineering instincts — you're as comfortable in build tooling, CI/CD, and dev environments as you are in application