Staff Platform Engineer

About The Role & Team

At Amplitude, we’re building a Digital Analytics Platform that helps our customers use data to build better products and drive growth. We’re already the analytics platform of choice for many top product teams around the world. Our team is defining the future of how companies interact with data to build better products.

Our infrastructure consists of over 5,000 servers on AWS and is continuing to grow. As a member of our Platform team, you will be responsible for keeping our infrastructure secure and performant through your work on our deployment, automation, and monitoring systems. You will also work closely with our development teams to implement the necessary processes to keep our platform highly available, efficient and secure. Your work will touch many technologies including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Saltstack, Consul, Redis, Kafka, and Postgres.

 As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Individually own a technical vision for the team. 
• Determine where we need the most tooling and owning the outcome of that tool. Drive adoption and incorporate feedback from engineers
• Identify blind spots in our telemetry and own projects to improve it. Train and educate other teams to understand and leverage new telemetry metrics
• Understand how to simplify our configuration systems to ensure any engineer can leverage the system. Identify how to support systems without custom configurations
• Define and own the outcomes for our build systems. Determine what tooling, custom applications, or re-architecturing of services is required to ensure a smooth build and deploy process
• Participate in an on-call rotation with the Platform team
• Research and implement improvements to how we manage our infrastructure

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

• 5+ years of experience working in a DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure role
• 2+ years of experience with software engineering in at least one modern language such as Python, Java, or Javascript
• Experience managing and automating large AWS deployments (1000+ machines)
• Good experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Managing Build infrastructure, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines with tools like Spinnaker (CI/CD) and monitoring tools like Datadog
• Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing, and analytics is a plus
• Passion for solving challenging problems and iterating quickly

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.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and wellbeing 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), learning and development (annual), commuter transit/parking (monthly), 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: 

• G2: #1 product analytics solution and #3 best software product according to the 2022 G2 Best Software report.
• Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on.
• Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL. 
• 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 have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.
• 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.

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: $180,000 - $270,000 base salary (inclusive of guaranteed bonus) OR (inclusive of 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: $200,000 - $300,000 base salary (inclusive of guaranteed bonus) OR (inclusive of 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: $200,000 - $300,000 base salary (inclusive of guaranteed bonus) OR (inclusive of 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: $200,000 - $300,000 base salary (inclusive of guaranteed bonus) OR (inclusive of commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $180,000 - $270,000 base salary (inclusive of guaranteed bonus) OR (inclusive of 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.