Staff Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 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 <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlinkurl=http%3A%2F%2Famplitude.comesheet=54428090newsitemid=20260218166598lan=en-USanchor=amplitude.comindex=8md5=6cc9f966d63fa604ba56b7d2bceba4fe">amplitude.com</a>.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI): </strong>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.</p></div><p>The <strong>Activation</strong> team at Amplitude is building a leading insights-driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost-effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.</p> <p>In addition, we are building powerful Journey Orchestration capabilities that allow customers to design, automate, and optimize end-to-end customer experiences. This includes enabling real-time, behavior-based triggers, cross-channel coordination, experimentation within journeys, and intelligent decisioning powered by customer insights. Our goal is to help businesses move from static audience activation to dynamic, personalized journeys that adapt instantly to user behavior and drive measurable outcomes.</p> <p>We are responsible for building and maintaining scalable real-time and batch data pipelines that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform processes over 800 petabytes of data per month—and it's growing rapidly.</p> <p><strong>In this role, you’ll tackle challenging infrastructure problems such as:</strong></p> <p>Designing systems to handle extreme throughputOptimizing for millisecond-level latenciesBuilding resilient architectures with near-zero downtime. You will also work closely with Product and Customers to shape the strategy and roadmap for both core platform capabilities and new product features. Our tech stack includes modern technologies such as Kafka, Temporal, real-time stream processing, Redis/Elasticache, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, and Terraform. You’ll join a team of curious, innovative engineers who love solving hard problems and sharing ideas.</p> <p> <strong>As a </strong><strong>SOFTWARE ENGINEER</strong><strong>, you will: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate closely with Product and Design to turn ideas into working features</li> <li>Build backend services that integrate with a variety of data warehouses and cloud platforms</li> <li>Optimize the performance and scalability of our data import/export infrastructure to handle ever-growing data volumes</li> <li>Lead engineering discussions and set the bar for technical excellence and best practices</li> <li>Mentor junior engineers and support their growth and success</li> <li>Define and drive the architectural vision for the product, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability</li> </ul> <p><strong>You'll be a great add ... (truncated, view full listing at source)