Engineering Manager, Data Connections

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.

Data Connections group’s mission is to ensure the right data reaches the right people at the right time. We are responsible for building scalable realtime pipelines, developing and cultivating the partner ecosystem around Amplitude, so customers can create a unified picture about users, drive business impact by making the data available at the right places. We are looking for a manager who can develop a cohesive vision and strategy for the product. You will manage a team of Infrastructure and full-stack engineers focused on building the product workflows to create first-class experience to customers and on building frameworks to enable Amplitude to Enterprise customers and Data teams. You’ll lead the team and be hands-on in finding solutions to difficult and complex problems as we grow. 

 As a Engineering Manager, you will: 

• Lead the engineering team of Infrastructure and full-stack engineers, taking ideas from concept to implementation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, customer support, and sales to build a cohesive strategy for our product.
• Earn the trust of your team, and challenge them to grow. 
• Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on technical implementation, engineering best practices, and career development.

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

• Believe that great engineering management starts with building trust and empathy, and ultimately succeeds by being able to challenge your team to grow and excel.
• Believe it’s important for engineering managers to stay close to technical problems and continue to contribute independently, as time allows.
• Have worked in an engineering management or technical leadership role before. 
• Have experience hiring, mentoring, coaching, and retaining engineers at all levels.
• Have a strong technical background in building scalable distributed systems and have delivered high quality work in a senior engineering position.
• Have a good understanding of current and emerging trends in web application development.
• Like to work closely with customers to build features and solve problems together.
• Consistently make culture choices that positively impact the broader engineering team.
• Experience in web application development (e.g. JavaScript, React, Node.js) or managing full-stack engineers would be a plus.

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. 

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a 12-week parental leave, a generous Learning & Development stipend, and a full 10 year window to exercise your stock options.  And when our offices are open, we offer delicious in-office lunch, dinner, & snacks, and commuting benefits.

The Product: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform– we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive. 

Amplitude powers digital upstarts like Calm and Peloton and technology leaders like Microsoft and Paypal, but also 100+ year old companies like Ford, as they rethink their digital revenue strategy.

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Amplitude is a tech startup to bet your career on in 2021, according to Business Insider.
• Amplitude had a record year of growth in 2020 and grew employee headcount by 24%.
• Amplitude is one of the best software products on the market according to G2.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• More than 20% of the Fortune 100 are customers of Amplitude as are innovative brands such as Calm, Microsoft, Ford, NBC Universal, Hubspot, PayPal and Peloton.
• We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, 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.

Amplitude’s D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.