Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Pipeline

Amplitude is the pioneer in digital optimization software. More than 1,400 customers, including Atlassian, Instacart, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to power their digital products. Amplitude makes product data accessible to every member of an organization, empowering them to make data-driven decisions that fuel faster product innovation and 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.

About the Role and Team:

Amplitude’s infrastructure teams are responsible for both data ingestion and our proprietary query engine. Data pipeline team is responsible for ingestion the current stream of 1.5M to 1.8M API Calls and events per second, while our query engine handles searches over 6 PB of data. The data pipeline team has a constant mission to discover bottlenecks and replace them with the improved new version. Our challenge is we have these upgrades with minimal to zero ingestion downtime. 

As a manager of this data pipeline team, you should be very hands on building and improving highly distributed, scalable and reliable software systems. If you are someone who is passionate about backend engineering, building highly scalable services, have a high sense of ownership, and love to have impact by managing a growing impactful team, we would love to talk to you. 

As a Senior Engineering Manager you will:

• Lead and support the infrastructure engineering team, helping to take the ideas from initial phases to implementation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, customer support and sales to build a cohesive strategy for our data ingestion pipeline.
• 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:

• Have hands-on experience with basic distributed tools such as Kafka, Redis, and/or DyanmoDB.
• Believe that great engineering management starts with building trust and empathy, and ultimately succeeds by being able to challenge your team's growth 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. Experience mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels.
• Come from a strong technical background and have delivered high quality work in a senior engineering position.
• Are able to seek out world class engineers, and successfully recruit them to join your cause.
• Consistently make culture choices that positively impact the broader engineering team.
• Operate well in the unknown, and enjoy crafting strategy and vision for an evolving team. 
• Believe that strong alignment around vision leads to a better product and better outcomes.
• Enjoy working with a world class engineering team, and being given the opportunity to learn and grow.

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 generous parental leave, a subscription to Modern Health, and a generous Learning & Development stipend. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital optimization system – we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and ultimately grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers  companies to thrive in the digital era. 

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): 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. 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Amplitude is a tech company to bet your career on in 2021, according to Business Insider.
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL. 
• Amplitude is the #1 product analytics solution according to G2.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We’ve hired more than 300 people in 2021 and have operations 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.