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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.\nAs 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.\nSan Francisco- Hybrid\nABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM:\nEvery chart, insight, and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer our team owns. We sit between Amplitude’s product experiences, APIs, and MCPs and our analytics database, and we own the compute API that turns a user’s question into a fast, correct answer.\nOur mandate: enable a highly performant, reliable, and flexible way to compute insights. Day to day, you’ll work with engineers on Data Management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, and other product teams that build on what we ship, as well as with the Query team below us, whose engine we rely on.\nThis role is for an engineer who is hungry to grow quickly. You’ll own small-medium-complexity projects end to end in a system that is changing fast, and we’ll stretch you on purpose with real problems, honest feedback, and strong engineers to learn from.\nWHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE:\nMake new behavioral 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.\n\nOwn the reliability of what you build. Define tests, rollout plans, and observability, know your service’s SLOs, and fix problems at the root.\n\nKeep real customer workloads fast. Profile query paths, find bottlenecks with traces and experiments, and verify that your changes helped.\n\nHelp us change the system safely. Take part in migrations of APIs, schemas, and services, and learn how good abstractions make change cheaper.\n\nBecome a go-to person. Build real expertise in part of the system, answer teammates’ questions, and share what you learn through docs and demos.\n\nStay 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.\n\nEXAMPLE PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON:\nExtend the compute API so a new kind of behavioral question can be expressed.\n\nPropose and Move a set of query paths onto a new internal representation, with parity testing and a safe rollout so that future improvements can be done safely.\n\nAdd observability and SLO tracking to a part of the compute layer that doesn’t have it yet.\n\nProfile and speed up a slow query pattern reported by a product team.\n\nSKILLS YOU’LL NEED TO BRING:\nBackend engineering fundamentals: You have 2-4 years of experience building and running production services. You write clear, tested code and can reason about failure, retries, and correctness in data-intensive systems.\n\nThoughtful problem-solving: You start by understanding the context, decompose tricky problems, and work toward a clean solution. You ask clarifying questions before diving in.\n\nOwnership of quality: You instrument your code, verify outcomes before calling work done, and respond quickly when something you shipped breaks.\n\nClear communication: You flag risks early, explain decisions in writing and in conversation, and give and receive feedback openly.\n\nCustomer curiosity: You ask what problem a customer is trying to solve before you start building. You use Amplitude yourself, can explain it to others, and care whether the feature you shipped made someone’s work better.\n\nFluency with AI-assisted engineering: You use AI to speed up learning, exploration, and testing while taking responsibility for understanding and validating the result.\n\nA habit of learning and improving: You seek out feedback, act on it, and can point to specific things you got better at recently. You’re curious about how the system works around the layers you’re working on.\n\nNICE TO HAVES:\nExperience with query engines, columnar or analytical databases, or large-scale data processing.\n\nExperience with observability, SLOs, and oncall for a production service.\n\nSide projects, writing, or talks that show you learn in public.\n\nHOW WE WORK:\nShip fast. We create clarity in ambiguity through action. We favor prototypes, MVPs, and incremental milestones over long planning cycles, and we escalate when a decision is stuck.\n\nValue impact over effort. We tie every initiative to team, organization, and company goals, and we reshape or stop work when the expected impact no longer justifies it.\n\nCompany > team > me. We make decisions for the whole organization, share credit generously, and invest in the growth of the engineers around us.\n\nTake responsibility. We set and meet measurable quality bars, own our SLOs, and build a no-blame culture where failures turn into organizational learning.\n\nOwn the product experience. We treat customer success as our job, not the job of the teams in front of us.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity and Diversity Statement\nWe are committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy. We will recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate and provide benefits to all applicants and employees without regard to ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, religious creed, mental and/or physical disability, medical condition, military and/or veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The firm complies fully with all federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws.\nThis role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.\nBased on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado: Colorado range: $86,000 - $118,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)\nBased 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: $95000 - $131,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)\nBased on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude California: California salary range: $95000 - $131,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)\nBased on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state: Washington salary range:\nbase salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)\nBased 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.\nOur values:\nAt Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:\nHumility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.\n\nOwnership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.\n\nGrowth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.\n\nCustomer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.\n\nWe 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.\nSome of our benefit programs include:\nExcellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans\n\n401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually\n\nFlexible time off, paid holidays, and more\n\nGenerous 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\n\nExcellent Parental benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support\n\nMental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions\n\nEmployee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)\n\nOther fun facts about Amplitude:\nOur customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.\n\nWe care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.\n\nWe invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.\n\nWe give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.\n\nWe were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.\n\nWe’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.\n\nOur mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. 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