Senior Product Engineer, Activation

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,300 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Square, and Jersey Mike’s, 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. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Summer 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

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.

The Activation team at Amplitude is building a leading insights-driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost-effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.

We are responsible for building features to help customers find the right audience to target, visualize their customer journey to  plan interventions and build scalable real-time and batch data pipelines along with an ecosystem of integrations that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform supports over 100+ integrations and processes over 800 petabytes of data per month and it's growing rapidly.

We're looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join our Activation team. In this role, someone who isn’t afraid to take on the challenges of building and evolving a highly-sophisticated, data-intensive enterprise product. As one of the senior members of the engineering team, you will be responsible for building innovative interfaces and cross-cutting architectural improvements for our Activation Platform, enabling self-serving data connections, simplifying customer insights generation, and ensuring a seamlessly integrated user experience with other Amplitude products. 

As a Senior Product Engineer, you will: 

• Lead projects, from ideation and implementation, through to launch.
• Develop new features for data connection management and customer insights discovery using TypeScript, React/Redux, HTML, and CSS.
• Develop APIs and business logic in Python/Java to support product functionality.
• Integrate with backend services and improve our API infrastructure built with Python, Java, Node, GraphQL and Postgres.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams to iterate on our product.
• Lead engineering discussions and drive engineering best practices.
• Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers.

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

• Passion for driving customer value,  you think about how your work delivers value to customers.
• Interest in customer interaction, iterating with customers to develop novel innovative products.
• Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality, maintainable code
• Technical leadership in your current team. Other team members seek you out for mentorship and advice.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, algorithms, and system design
• Enthusiasm for working across frontend and backend technologies to take full ownership of the problem.
• Pride yourself in your excellent attention to detail and your design and UX sensibilities.

At a minimum, you need to have:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field.
• 5+ years of experience working as a Product Engineer, or a full-stack engineer with a front-end focus.
• Previous experience