Engineering Manager, Data Connections

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform helping over 4700 customersincluding Atlassian Burger King NBCUniversal and Squarebuild 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 in G2s Winter 2026 Report 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 & Team

Amplitude is only as useful as the data inside it. The Data Connections team owns how that data gets in and out importing behavioral and customer data from cloud data warehouses like Snowflake Databricks and BigQuery from cloud object storage like S3 and Azure Blob Storage and pushing enriched event data back out to warehouses object storage streaming destinations and downstream advertising and marketing platforms.

That means batch and streaming pipelines moving billions of events a day connections that have to keep working across dozens of customer-controlled systems credentials and configuration that have to stay correct and secure and latency and reliability targets that customers build their own pipelines on top of. Recent work includes launching new warehouse export destinations migrating our import pipelines onto a durable workflow engine building low-latency streaming export and supporting cross-region and cross-cloud customer storage.

Youll lead a team of around 10 engineers building this reporting to our Head of Data Platform and youll be the person accountable for the roadmap the reliability and the growth of the people on it. The stack is Java Temporal Kafka Kubernetes Terraform DynamoDB S3 and Snowflake running on AWS and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction and roadmap for data import and export with clear priorities and tradeoffs you can explain to engineers PMs and customers
• Lead coach and grow a team of around 10 engineers hiring career development feedback and performance
• Partner with your tech leads on architecture across ingestion transformation and delivery without becoming the bottleneck for every decision
• Own reliability SLOs and cost efficiency for pipelines customers depend on daily
• Expand the set of destinations and sources we support and make each new integration cheaper to build than the last
• Work directly with Product Design and other Data Platform teams to ship end-to-end
• Get involved personally in significant customer onboardings and escalations

Skills and Experience

• 2 years leading engineers as a manager or as a tech lead
• 6 years building backend data or infrastructure systems
• Experience with data integration or pipeline work ETL/ELT data warehouses streaming or batch processing at scale
• Comfortable with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes Kafka S3 or equivalent object storage Terraform)
• A track record of improving reliability latency or cost for systems in production
• Clear communication with engineers and non-engineers alike especially when something has gone wrong

Nice to have but not required:

• Experience with Snowflake Databricks BigQuery or similar warehouses as a builder or a heavy user
• Experience with durable workflow engines such as Temporal
• Experience with advertising or marketing platform integrations

Our values:

At Amplitude our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
• Growth Mindset: Were tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

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
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2000 annually
• 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) new hire home office equipment and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 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
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care a lot about product innovation. Weve made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
• 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 Data Monster 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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $227000 - $341000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $254000 - $381000 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 San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $254000 - $381000 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: $227000 - $341000 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 state. Washington salary range: $227000 - $341000 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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