Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform helping over 4300 customersincluding Atlassian Burger King NBCUniversal Square and Under Armourbuild better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform teams can analyze test and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2 Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product data and marketing teams. Learn more at .

As an organization we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility take ownership of problems and successes approach challenges with a growth mindset and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

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

Amplitudes Platform team is the foundation for how our engineers build deploy and operate software. We manage our Kubernetes-based infrastructure CI/CD pipelines observability stack developer tooling and the golden path for delivering reliable secure and cost-efficient systems - and we do it by taking a software development approach to problem solving.

Were looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team of highly experienced engineers. This role is critical to ensuring daily tactical success while also evolving our infrastructure and developer experience. You will balance hands-on technical credibility with transformational leadership enabling the team to deliver effectively today while shaping how Amplitude builds software in the future.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Infrastructure.

What Youll Do

• Lead and manage the Infra Platform team of engineers fostering a culture of business impact ownership accountability and customer-centricity.
• Provide technical leadership in Kubernetes CNCF ecosystem tooling CI/CD observability and infrastructure-as-code guiding the team with credible insights and judgment.
• Spend 30% of your time hands on - code contributions will very much be part of the day to day. We have tools written in Go Python Node Javascript etc.
• Drive AI transformation in developer experience by identifying and implementing ways to use AI/LLMs beyond code generation such as automating Platform onboarding using AI Ops to auto-heal systems or other abstractions that simplify developer workflows and eliminate copy/paste patterns.
• Own people management responsibilities:
• Conduct regular 1:1s provide coaching and ensure engagement across the team.
• Run performance reviews hold team members accountable to growth plans and make promotion and compensation recommendations.
• Recognize and reward progress celebrate successes and ensure engineers feel supported and challenged.
• Drive alignment within a team of strong experienced engineers facilitating healthy debate making trade-offs and ensuring the team delivers cohesive solutions.
• Ensure high code quality and engineering standards by actively reviewing providing feedback and spotting quality trends at both the individual and team level.
• Partner cross-functionally with Security Engineering FinOps and Product Engineering teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions that benefit all of Engineering and/or our products.
• Contribute to strategic direction of the platform organization while ensuring day-to-day operational success and tactical execution.
  
  

What Were Looking For

• Proven leadership experience managing a team of senior/staff-level engineers ideally in a platform infrastructure or developer experience domain.
• Strong technical background in cloud-native infrastructure: Kubernetes CNCF ecosystem tools CI/CD observability infra-as-code (Terraform or equivalents).
• Ability to judge and coach technical quality not necessarily by writing every line of code but by understanding engineering trade-offs and maintaining high standards.
• Transformational leadership mindset with a track record (or strong passion) for leveraging AI/LLMs to improve developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Customer-centricity: Demonstrated success in building platforms that internal engineers love to use.
• Growth mindset: Both for yourself and for your team. Track record of mentoring coaching and promoting talent.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with a track record of partnering across engineering and security teams.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling platforms in AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and optimizing cloud cost efficiency.
• Prior experience leading infrastructure or platform org transformations.

Who We Are

The Company:Amplitude is filled with humble life-long 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 well-being of our team:We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent medical dental and vision insurance coverages with 100% employer-paid 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: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support Back-up 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 fast-growing 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: $213000 - $368000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity.

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