Senior Backend Engineer

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,500 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive 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.

Amplitude’s 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 inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

The Data Management team's mission is to give customers discoverable, understandable, and secure data they can trust.  As a member of the Data Management team, you will own features around different aspects of customers' data including planning and instrumentation, discoverability and usage, clean up, enrichment, monitoring, and privacy/access.  Amplitude does this by providing an expansive set of data tools, providing timely recommendations for keeping data clean using our AI Data Assistant,  and automating these data governance jobs for customers.

The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure.

 As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• Drive business impact through owning end-to-end delivery of projects
• Operate with a focus on rapid but sustainable delivery through proper sequencing and experimentation
• Advocate for the right priorities and communicate effectively with engineering leadership
• Contribute to definition of SLAs and upholding operational excellence for applications and services that power the data management experience
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
• Get involved in performance optimization and scaling efforts
• Work with with Product Management and Design to generate and turn novel ideas for solving customer problems into engineering solutions
• Drive engineering discussions and  engineering best practices
• Mentor and contribute to the success of other engineers on the team

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

• 5+ years of experience developing and improving on robust, scalable backends for user-facing applications
• Strong backend experience with application backends, microservices, supporting high throughput ingestion systems, optimizing caching that balances speed and correctness
• Understand the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications – frontend experience is a plus
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to changing requirements
• Constant desire to learn and grow in the field of web development
• Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
• Have experience managing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong practitioner of automated testing
• Have familiarity with the following: (Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Python)
• Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team

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