Staff Software Engineer; 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.

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER - ANALYTICS COMPUTE PLATFORM TEAM

ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM

Every chart, insight, and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer that this team owns. Our team sits between Amplitude's front-end analytics products/ rest APIs/ MCPs and Nova, our proprietary analytics database, and owns the compute API that translates a user's question into a fast, correct answer.

Our mandate: enable a highly performant, reliable, and flexible way to compute insights. Those three goals are often in tension the more flexible we make the system, the harder it is to keep it fast and simple, and a lot of the interesting engineering work on this team lives in that tradeoff.

Day to day, you'll work closely with engineers on data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and various product teams, since they're all consumers of what we build.

AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL

• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude's product suite
• Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table
• Help unify and evolve our core data model, including how non-event data (profile properties, lookup tables, etc.) is represented alongside event data
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine
• Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through rollout

YOU'LL BE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE TEAM IF YOU HAVE

• Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally touching OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure
• Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on
• Comfort reasoning about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use and making deliberate calls between them
• A track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end-to-e

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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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