Staff Platform Engineer Kubernetes
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$ 185000 - 319000
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Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 3800 customers including Atlassian NBCUniversal Under Armour Shopify and Jersey Mikes rely on Amplitude to gain selfservice 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 bestinclass analytics solution for product data and marketing teams ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2s Winter 2024 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at.
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.
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.
Staff Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)
About the Role:
We are looking for a highly experienced and collaborative Staff Platform Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for the design automation and optimization of our Kubernetesbased platform ensuring that it is scalable easy to use and reliable. This is a critical role for our company and we are seeking someone who not only has deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes but also values mentoring collaboration and open communication. Your work will directly impact our developer productivity by building systems and abstractions that simplify the deployment of new workloads making it easy for developers to focus on building features not infrastructure.
In this role you will help drive a cultural shift in how our Platform team operates working to create positive relationships across the company building trust and making our platform easier to use. We value someone who listens learns and communicates effectively while still ensuring high technical standards and reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design implementation and management of our Kubernetesbased platform focusing on scalability developer experience and system reliability.
- Architect and maintain automation around Kubernetes ensuring that the platform is easy for developers to use and requires minimal toil to deploy or modify workloads in a selfservice model.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams (developers leaders and other infrastructure teams) to gather requirements build consensus and deliver impactful solutions.
- Integrate observability into the platform using tools like Datadog Prometheus Grafana New Relic and Splunk to monitor system health and performance.
- Drive infrastructureascode initiatives using tools like Kubernetes Operators Helm Kustomize and Terraform promoting automation repeatability and reliability.
- Ensure that the platform integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines (using Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts Github Actions Jenkins or similar) and continuously improve developer workflows.
- Contribute to the operational excellence of the platform including oncall responsibilities and incident management while building selfhealing capabilities where possible.
- Act as a mentor to other engineers on the team promoting growth and knowledge sharing ensuring that the team thrives even in the absence of specific individuals.
- Foster a culture of collaboration empathy and trust within the team and across departments helping to bridge gaps between engineering and other business functions.
- Take a handson approach to problemsolving sometimes submitting PRs to resolve issues in codebases or providing detailed solutions when teams need assistance.
What Were Looking For:
- 8 years of experience in some combination of cloudnative software development platform engineering site reliability engineering and/or cloud infrastructure with a more recent focus on Kubernetes and the cloudnative ecosystem.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes and related CNCF projects (e.g. Argo CD/Workflows Backstage Envoy CoreDNS and more) and in simplifying complex cloud infrastructure for broader teams.
- Operational experience at scale with technologies like Kafka and Airflow.
- Proficient in common infrastructure languages like Golang Python and Terraform with experience developing and operating production systems.
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud infrastructure networking and security.
- Proven experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog Splunk Prometheus Grafana Cloud etc. and a strong understanding of system performance tuning.
- Expertise in building abstractions over Kubernetes to simplify developer interaction with the platform.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams build consensus and drive initiatives in a highpressure environment.
- High level of empathy and patience with a commitment to mentoring and helping others succeed and the ability to incorporate feedback and turn it into actionable improvements.
- Experience with infrastructureascode and automation (Terraform Helm Kustomize etc. with a focus on reducing toil and operational overhead.
- A mindset focused on improving the developer experience and business alignment with the flexibility to make decisions that may go against ideal technical preferences when necessary.
Who We Are
The Company:Amplitude is filled with humble lifelong 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 wellbeing of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent medical dental and vision insurance coverages with 100 employerpaid 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: 1220 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support Backup 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 theNewsweek Excellence Index 2024.
- Our customers love us! Theyve said were the#1 product analytics solutionfor 15 quarters in a row on G2.
- Were focused on growth. Check us out in Deloittes 2023 Technology Fast 500
- 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 fastgrowing 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 the datamonster 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 in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $185000 $319000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity.
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Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3500 customers including Atlassian Jersey Mikes NBCUniversal Shopify and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to gain selfservice 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.
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.
By applying for this job you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.
Staying Safe Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud
We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and/or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @amplitudeemail address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring tothis article. Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.
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Employment Type
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