Staff Software Engineer, Data Management

About The Role & Team

The Data Management team is building the Trust Engine that powers the entire product. We are moving beyond simple data entry to architecting a self-healing, intelligent data ecosystem.

As a member of the team, you will drive the technical vision for how customers define, govern, and trust their data at massive scale. You will design the system that governs the data lifecycle, building scalable systems responsible for complex ingestion planning, semantic enrichment, and data observability.

You will lead the charge in transforming data governance from a manual chore into an automated, AI-driven infrastructure that powers our 'Ask AI' and Data Assistant capabilities. You are solving the hardest problem in analytics: proving that the data is right.

The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure.

 As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Drive business impact end‑to‑end. Own delivery of cross‑team initiatives that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and developer velocity—scoping MVPs, sequencing work, and validating with real signals.
• Create clarity and shape strategy. Turn ambiguous problems into actionable plans; define technical direction, standards, and reusable tools that help multiple teams ship faster with confidence.
• Uphold operational excellence. Define and raise SLOs for services that power the data management experience; own instrumentation, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Scale systems and performance. Lead efforts to improve throughput for ingestion and governance workflows, reduce latency with the right caching patterns, and harden critical paths.
• Build the foundations for trusted data. Evolve platform capabilities such as a shared data health evaluation framework and APIs, event/property observability (anomalies, schema drift), safe clean‑up workflows, and metadata ingestion—often in partnership with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams.
• Partner across functions. Work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams (e.g., Analytics, Experiment, Ingestion/Query) and engage with customers and account teams to ground decisions in real needs and outcomes.
• Mentor and multiply. Raise the bar through design reviews, thoughtful code reviews, and coaching helping other engineers grow in judgment, systems thinking, and execution.
• Champion pragmatic delivery. Advocate for iterative milestones, canary/flagged rollouts, and data‑driven experimentation that balance speed with sustainability.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you:

• Staff‑level impact in backend engineering. Track record of owning and delivering cross‑team systems in distributed, microservices architectures, including high‑throughput ingestion and caching that balances speed and correctness.
• Strong backend proficiency. Expertise in one or more of: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python, plus production experience with AWS and infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform, CDK).
• Operational ownership. Experience defining/measuring SLOs, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and applying observability (metrics/logs/traces) and automated testing to keep systems reliable at scale.
• Customer focus. Ability to translate customer and account team signals into technical strategy and sequenced delivery, validating outcomes with data—not just intent.
• Engineering principles in action. Demonstrated Bias for Action, Impact > Effort prioritization, deep Technical Ownership, commitment to Customer Focus, and investment in Personal & Team Development.
• Excellent communication and alignment skills. Comfortable facilitating decisions across multiple stakeholders and creating crisp, shared understanding.
• Nice to have. Domain experience in event analytics, data governance/taxonomy, metadata systems, RBAC/privacy, experimentation, or AI‑assisted automation.

Amplitude levels for impact, not tenure. Title and compensation will be calibrated to scope and demonstrated outcomes. As a guideline, candidates operating at Staff level often have 7+ years of relevant experience, but we prioritize evidence of impact and scale over years.

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We 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.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support 
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
• We’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.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based 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.

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