Senior Software Engineer Query
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$ 161000 - 266200
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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.
About The Role & Team
Were looking for a Sr Software Engineer to help build our query engine and tackle big challenges in a fastgrowing data company. Our engineers are leading the efforts to drive our largescale distributed systems to the 10x level while making innovations to our industryleading analytics capabilities. As a Sr engineer of the Query team you will be responsible for designing building and operating the underlying distributed systems that power our core analytics product and other products(eg: experiments CDP session reply). You will be working at all layers of the query engine from the highlevel analytics algorithms to the lowlevel distributed computation and storage layer. Our systems are based on the modern cloud stack e.g. AWS S3 DynamoDB Redis/ElastiCache Kafka Kubernetes Terraform Java C Python. You will be collaborating and sharing your ideas with a group of similarly innovative and curious engineers.
Our query engine (Nova) provides us with a competitive edge where we can provide customers with complex insights in realtime using realtime data and at a big data scale. A single larger query would require analyzing hundreds of billions of user events in real time. We achieved this by building an inhouse OLAP database from the ground up from the lowlevel distributed storage and computation layer to the highlevel product analytics logic. Our design and architecture draw inspiration from many stateoftheart systems in the big data space and we learned best practices from Druid Scuba Dremel and other opensource projects(Apache Arrow Apache IceBerg etc) to build our own query engine. Check out our engineering blog to learn more.
As a Sr Software Engineer you will:
- Technical lead for projects/features that have high business impact
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team product and systems
- Lead performance optimization and scaling efforts
- Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
- Develop components and services that expand the capabilities of our analytics product
- Participate and collaborate with Product and Design Team to iterate on our product
- Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices
- Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers
Youll be a great addition to the team if you have:
- B.S. M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
- 4 years of industry experience in a Software Engineering role
- Strong foundation in programming data structures algorithms and software application design
- Passionate about solving challenging problems and iterating quickly
- Experience with Java or C is a plus
- Previous experience in distributed systems data processing and analytics is a plus
- Technical leadership of an engineering team is a plus
Bonus Experience
- Deep understanding of OLAP system and handson experience
- Able to research a topic from papers and open source projects to come up with a solution to solve our problems.
- Technical leadership of an engineering team
- Leading multiquarter projects involving multiple engineers
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 Japan and Australia.
- 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 $266200 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $145000 $239000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary) medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
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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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
