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Staff Software Engineer - DevX

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
173K-264K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
173K-264K Annually
Senior level
Lead frontend platform architecture, performance, and developer experience. Build/maintain build systems, CI/CD, tooling, and shared component infrastructure. Drive AI-agent/LLM-powered automation to remove engineering bottlenecks, set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and partner cross-functionally to scale frontend productivity.
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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—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 Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

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.

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 Team

DevX owns engineering velocity at Amplitude: build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. We're building a software factory: automated workflows that remove manual bottlenecks from how engineers ship code.

 The Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – San Francisco) who bridges infrastructure and application thinking and can accelerate how the whole team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud. You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead our software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud-first workflows.

This is a high-leverage, low-oversight role. You'll own initiatives end to end, from an ambiguous problem to production, and set technical direction for a foundational team.

 What You'll Do
  • Cloud development platform: Unify and scale our existing local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase. Make it fast and reliable for engineers and AI agents to provision environments, build, test, debug, and validate changes, with reproducible test data and clear access controls.
  • Software factory: Find the biggest bottleneck in the engineering workflow, automate it, then move to the next one. This increasingly means building the sandboxes and tooling that let AI agents do the work directly, not just assist with it.
  • Developer experience & tooling: Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. Drive down build/CI time, deploy risk, and feedback latency.
  • Technical leadership: Set direction and standards, turn ambiguous problems into roadmaps, and mentor senior/staff engineers through design review and pairing.
 What We're Looking For
  • Staff-level engineering experience and impact.
  • Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side.
  • Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes).
  • A track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight.
  • Strong judgment, clear writing, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority.
 Nice to Have
  • Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migrations.
  • Agent harness infrastructure: eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs.
 Who We Are

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.


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: $198,000 - $299,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)


Based 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: $220,000 - $331,000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)


Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude California: California salary range: $220,000 - $331,000 base salary (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: $198,000 - $299,000 base salary (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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