Staff Software Engineer, Data Connections (Backend) at Amplitude

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,200 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. 

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

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.

About The Role & Team

Amplitude’s mission is to be the operating system for digital business. At its core, Amplitude provides a new window into digital customer behavior that helps businesses answer the question: “Where do we place our digital bets to maximize growth?” We approach challenges with humility, we take ownership of our contributions, and our growth mindset pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

The Data Warehouse team is responsible for developing features to allow users integrate disparate data sources with Amplitude seamlessly to turn data into powerful product intelligence. We created a data platform which allows customers to easily bring data from numerous data sources into amplitude, and enhance the value of the data by powering more workflows outside of Amplitude as well. Also we are building next generation analytics experience where users can instantly get product insights out of their data in warehouses without any data ingested. Today, the team still works like a small startup with a fast-paced, collaborative and adaptive working environment. And we have lots of great product initiatives to be fulfilled.

In this role, you will solve hardcore Infrastructure challenges like designing for extreme throughput, designing/optimizing systems with millisecond latencies, building resilient systems to achieve close to zero downtime. You will also get to closely work with Product and Customers to define the strategy and roadmap for our core product and new features. You will also work with designers to deliver the best customer experience for our products.

Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis/Elasticache, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Terraform etc. You will share your ideas with a group of similarly innovative and curious engineers.

 As a Staff Software Engineer, you will: 

• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation

• Develop backend services that integrates with various data warehouses and cloud services

• Optimize the performance and scale our data import/export infrastructure to server ever-increasing volume.

• Collaborate with Product and Design to iterate on our product

• Participate in design and code reviews  

• Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices

• Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers

Youll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field

• 4+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering role

• Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design

• Passionate about solving challenging problems and iterating quickly

• Previous experience with Java or Java is a plus

• Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing and analytics is a plus

• Previous experience with ETL/ETL pipelines is a plus

• Technical leadership of an engineering team is a plus