Amplitude

Senior Software Engineer, Data Management

Amplitude$212K — $319K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Strong fullstack engineering background with experience in distributed microservices architectures
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React), and/or Python
  • Experience with observability, automated testing, and CI/CD
  • Customer-focused mindset with data-driven outcome validation
  • Effective communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Nice to have experience in data governance, session replay, and AI-assisted automation.

Responsibilities

  • Ownership of end-to-end product features that enhance data quality and customer experience
  • Actively participate in technical discussions and solution proposals
  • Instrument services and contribute to service level objectives
  • Design for scalability and correctness in data ingestion and governance workflows
  • Develop frameworks for trusted data and collaborative features with other teams
  • Architect support for diverse data models to unify customer data governance
  • Utilize session replay for enhancing taxonomy and closing instrumentation gaps
  • Deliver fullstack solutions bridging backend services and user-facing components
  • Collaborate across functions to ground engineering decisions in customer needs
  • Mentor teammates and share knowledge through reviews and discussions.

Benefits

  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums
  • Flexible time off and paid holidays
  • Generous stipends for wellness, commuter expenses, learning, and home office setup
  • Comprehensive parental benefits including paid leave and fertility support
  • Mental health and wellness resources including coaching and therapy sessions
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Full Job Description
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 contribute to the technical vision for how customers define, govern, and trust their data at massive scale. You will help design and build systems that govern the data lifecycle, including complex ingestion planning, semantic enrichment, and data observability - spanning backend infrastructure, APIs, and the product surfaces customers interact with directly.

You will be at the forefront of transforming data governance from a manual chore into an automated, AI-driven infrastructure that powers our 'Ask AI' and Data Assistant capabilities. You are helping solve 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 Senior Engineer, you will:
  • Ship meaningful product end-to-end. Take ownership of well-scoped features and system improvements that measurably improve data quality, reliability, and the customer experience - from design through delivery.
  • Contribute to technical direction. Participate actively in design discussions, propose solutions to complex problems, and help define patterns and practices that raise the quality bar for the team.
  • Uphold operational excellence. Instrument the services you build, contribute to SLO definitions, respond to incidents, and improve the reliability of systems you own.
  • Build for scale and correctness. Contribute to ingestion and governance workflows with an eye toward throughput, latency, and correctness - applying appropriate caching, testing, and resilience patterns.
  • Build the foundations for trusted data. Work on 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 collaboration with AI foundations, Pipeline/Query, and Go-to-market teams.
  • Expand beyond events. Help architect support for non-event data models - including entities, metrics, and dimensional data - so customers can govern their full data ecosystem within a unified taxonomy experience.
  • Pioneer session replay-driven taxonomy. Contribute to using session replay signals to automatically surface untracked interactions, propose new events and properties, and close instrumentation gaps - turning passive recordings into an active, intelligent taxonomy builder.
  • Own fullstack delivery. Design and ship features spanning backend services, data pipelines, and the React/TypeScript product surfaces customers use daily.
  • Partner across functions. Collaborate with Product, Design, and other engineering teams (e.g., Analytics, Experiment, Ingestion/Query, Session Replay) and engage with customers and account teams to ground decisions in real needs.
  • Grow and help others grow. Participate in design and code reviews, share knowledge, and invest in your own development and that of teammates.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you:
  • 5+ years of previous relevant experience.
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
  • Strong fullstack engineering background. Experience owning and delivering features that span backend services and user-facing product, including APIs and interactive UI in distributed, microservices architectures.
  • Fullstack proficiency. Solid skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js and React/frontend frameworks) and/or Python, plus experience with AWS and infrastructure tooling.
  • Operational mindset. Experience with observability (metrics/logs/traces), automated testing, and CI/CD - and a habit of treating reliability as part of the job, not an afterthought.
  • Customer focus. Ability to connect your work to customer outcomes and use data to validate that what you shipped actually helped.
  • Engineering principles in action. Demonstrated Bias for Action, Impact > Effort prioritization, Technical Ownership, and investment in your own and your team's development.
  • Clear communicator. Comfortable collaborating across stakeholders and articulating technical tradeoffs concisely.
  • Nice to have. Domain experience in event analytics, data governance/taxonomy, metadata systems, session replay, non-event data models, RBAC/privacy, experimentation, or AI-assisted automation.

Some of our benefit programs include:
  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off, paid 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)

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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About Amplitude

Amplitude is a San Francisco-based technology company that provides analytics software for businesses. The company's platform allows businesses to track user behavior and analyze data to improve their products and services. Amplitude was founded in 2012 and has since grown to serve over 1,000 customers, including Microsoft, Twitter, and HubSpot. The company has been recognized for its innovative approach to analytics, including its use of machine learning and other advanced technologies. Amplitude has also been praised for its commitment to diversity and inclusion, including its efforts to increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the tech industry.
Learn more about Amplitude
Size
500 employees
Market Cap
$1.2 billion
Industry
Founded
2012
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