Software Engineer II, Analytics Compute Platform Team

The posting, as Amplitude wrote it

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 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 http://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.

San Francisco- Hybrid

ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM

Every chart, insight, and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer our team owns. We sit between Amplitude’s product experiences, APIs, and MCPs and our analytics database, and we own the compute API that turns a user’s question into a fast, correct answer.

Our mandate: enable a highly performant, reliable, and flexible way to compute insights. Day to day, you’ll work with engineers on Data Management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, and other product teams that build on what we ship, as well as with the Query team below us, whose engine we rely on.

This role is for an engineer who is hungry to grow quickly. You’ll own small-medium-complexity projects end to end in a system that is changing fast, and we’ll stretch you on purpose with real problems, honest feedback, and strong engineers to learn from.

WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE

• Make new behavioral insights easier to build. Design and ship new query capabilities, extension points, and shared libraries/services that let product teams deliver new analyses in less time.
• Own the reliability of what you build. Define tests, rollout plans, and observability, know your service’s SLOs, and fix problems at the root.
• Keep real customer workloads fast. Profile query paths, find bottlenecks with traces and experiments, and verify that your changes helped.
• Help us change the system safely. Take part in migrations of APIs, schemas, and services, and learn how good abstractions make change cheaper.
• Become a go-to person. Build real expertise in part of the system, answer teammates’ questions, and share what you learn through docs and demos.
• Stay close to the customer. Understand the customer problem behind every project, measure whether your work made their experience better, and bring what you learn back to the team.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON

• Extend the compute API so a new kind of behavioral question can be expressed.
• Propose and Move a set of query paths onto a new internal representation, with parity testing and a safe rollout so that future improvements can be done safely.
• Add observability and S

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s, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans

• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
• 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), new hire home office equipment, and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including : 12 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
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude

• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution https://www.g2.com/categories/product-analytics/enterprise for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
• 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.

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