Software Engineer II, Data Warehouse

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.

About The Role & Team

Amplitude’s mission is to be the operating system for digital business. At its core, Amplitude provides a new window into digital customer behavior that helps businesses answer the question: “Where do we place our digital bets to maximize growth?” We approach challenges with humility, we take ownership of our contributions, and our growth mindset pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

The Data Warehouse team is responsible for developing features to allow users integrate disparate data sources with Amplitude seamlessly to turn data into powerful product intelligence. We created a data platform which allows customers to easily bring data from numerous data sources into amplitude, and enhance the value of the data by powering more workflows outside of Amplitude as well. Today, the team still works like a small startup with a fast-paced, collaborative and adaptive working environment. And we have lots of great product initiatives to be fulfilled.

In this role, you will solve hardcore Infrastructure challenges like designing for extreme throughput, designing/optimizing systems with millisecond latencies, building resilient systems to achieve close to zero downtime. You will also get to closely work with Product and Customers to define the strategy and roadmap for our core product and new features. You will also work with designers to deliver the best customer experience for our products.

Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis/Elasticache, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Terraform etc. You will share your ideas with a group of similarly innovative and curious engineers.

 As a Software Engineer II You Will: 

• Build and maintain backend services that integrate with various data warehouses and cloud services.
  
  
• Design and implement distributed systems that ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
  
  
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate ideas and requirements into working features.
  
  
• Optimize the performance of our data infrastructure to support ever-growing data volumes.
  
  
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and team-wide knowledge sharing.
  
  
• Contribute to the success of the team by supporting peers and mentoring junior engineers when possible.
  
  

You’ll Be a Great Addition to the Team If You Have:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
  
  
• 2–3+ years of industry experience as a backend or data-focused software engineer.
  
  
• Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and system design.
  
  
• Hands-on experience with at least one modern backend language (Java, Go, or Python preferred).
  
  
• Interest or experience in distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and analytics.
  
  
• Familiarity with or eagerness to learn Temporal, dbt, Apache Iceberg, or related technologies.
  
  
• A passion for solving challenging technic