Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team

Amplitude
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 167,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Cross-functional collaboration","Growth mindset","Tradeoff reasoning"]

Build and evolve Amplitude’s query/compute engine that powers customer insights. You’ll design core parts of the compute API and semantic layer, unify the data model across event and non-event data, and improve performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution. Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend, and take end-to-end ownership from design through rollout.

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Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Amplitude’s query/compute engine that powers customer insights. You’ll design core parts of the compute API and semantic layer, unify the data model across event and non-event data, and improve performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution. Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend, and take end-to-end ownership from design through rollout.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build core components of the query/compute engine powering analysis across the product suite.
  • •Evolve the compute API and semantic layer to support more generic tables.
  • •Unify and evolve the core data model, representing non-event data alongside event data.
  • •Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution.
  • •Collaborate with Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams to shape the compute layer and take projects end-to-end from design to rollout.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 167,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental LeaveLearning BudgetHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally with OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure.
  • •Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs used by other engineering teams.
  • •Ability to reason about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use.
  • •Experience owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end-to-end (not just well-scoped tickets).
  • •Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Experience:Distributed systemsData infrastructure
Skills:OwnershipCross-functional collaborationGrowth mindsetTradeoff reasoning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLOLAP

Company Brief

Amplitude
Provides a product analytics platform that helps teams understand user behavior, optimize digital products, and drive growth through event-based analytics, experimentation, and data-driven insights.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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