Senior Security Engineer

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.

About the Role:

As a Senior Security Engineer youll lead security initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering bringing a DevSecOps mindset to building automation and secure scalable systems. Youll collaborate closely with engineering teams and work across a wide range of domains including cloud security container security application security and developer tooling. This is a role for someone who enjoys contextswitching across a range of initiatives and isnt afraid to get into the weeds to unblock teams or ship secure solutions quickly. Youll also participate in a shared oncall rotation to respond to highrisk security issues and incidents in order to help the business minimize exposure.

Success in this role means driving meaningful improvements in our security posture without slowing down development. Youll reduce timetoremediate build automated guardrails and proactively identify risks before they become incidents. Youll be a trusted partner to engineering delivering highvelocity solutions that balance security and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Harden AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation policyascode and guardrails.
• Own and evolve our DevSecOps strategy across infrastructure and application pipelines.
• Drive endtoend secure development practices: integrate security into CI/CD build precommit hooks and improve developer productivity without sacrificing security.
• Create and implement lightweight scalable security controls that support fastmoving teams.
• Partner with engineering to identify and mitigate risks in architecture design and implementation stages.
• Participate in an oncall rotation to resolve critical/highrisk security issues as well as respond to security incidents with urgency and clarity.
• Identify opportunities to fix systemic gaps reduce recurring pain points and avoid reactive whackamole cycles.

What Were Looking For:

• 4 years of experience in security engineering with a strong focus on DevSecOps and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Handson expertise with infrastructureascode tools (Terraform CloudFormation) for AWS as well as the Kubernetes ecosystem of tools.
• Strong coding/scripting skills in Python Bash or equivalent languages for automating security tasks.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and integrating security controls early in the pipeline.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity driving clarity and leading through in fastpaced environments.
• Willingness to go above and beyond including submitting fixes and supporting teams directly when needed.
• Experience using AI to automate security tasks is a significant plus (e.g. log analysis code review alert triage).
• Familiarity with application security concepts is preferred but not required.

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 the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 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: $161000 $266000 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 @email 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.