Senior Software Engineer Analytics Compute Platform team

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform helping over 4700 customersincluding Atlassian Burger King NBCUniversal and Squarebuild 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 G2s Winter 2026 Report Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product data and marketing teams. Learn more at .

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.

Amplitudes Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products improves the ability to solve complex problems and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusionone focused on psychological safety empathy and human connectionthat will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

Every chart insight and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer that this team owns. Our team sits between Amplitudes front-end analytics products/ rest APIs/ MCPs and Nova our proprietary analytics database and owns the compute API that translates a users 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 youll work closely with engineers on data management marketing analytics Session Replay Experiment CDP Query and various product teams since theyre all consumers of what we build.

• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitudes 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

• 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-end rather than just executing well-scoped tickets
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; this teams work only matters in the context of the products built on top of it

• Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems
• Experience designing semantic layers ORMs or other data-modeling abstractions
• Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines
• Experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows

• New compute schema and parallelization redesigning how queries are represented internally to unlock faster more parallelizable execution.
• Deeper session-based analysis extending our session-analysis capabilities with new filters and formula support.
• Smarter result caching improving both the actual and perceived speed of the query engine.
• Extending SQL as an interface into Amplitudes data lets AI agents third-party tools and warehouse-native workflows query Amplitude data directly and reliably. Paving the way for us to run directly on an external warehouse.
• Bringing non-event data into the core model representing things like customer profile properties sessions and lookup tables alongside event data so features can be built against a single consistent model quickly and computed efficiently.
• Data access controls giving enterprise admins fine-grained control over who can access sensitive data so they can confidently expand what they send into Amplitude and who can use it.

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: were 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 platformwe 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. Were super proud of what weve 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 well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent Medical Dental and Vision insurance coverages with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical Dental Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off paid holidays and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you whether thats wellness (monthly) commuter transit/parking (monthly) learning and development (quarterly) 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:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• 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.
• Were 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.

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 legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude California: California salary range: $167000 - $230000 base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission)

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