Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Experiment

About The Role & Team

We’re looking for a senior infrastructure engineer to join the Experiment team within Amplitude. You will be part of a passionate group of engineers to help modern businesses transform their products through data and experimentation. As a senior infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining Experiment’s critical evaluation and feature delivery infrastructure, which handles over 100 billion evaluation requests per month with high availability and low latency requirements. If you have experience developing global, high volume, high reliability end-to-end systems, then this will be a great role for you.

 As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on Experiment, you will: 

• Work across our entire end-to-end system using Java, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python, PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and monitor AWS cloud infrastructure using DynamoDB, Elasticache, RDS, etc.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain Experiment’s high-volume evaluation service and infrastructure to handle ever increasing request volume and SLA requirements.
• Work cross functionally with the Experiment product and engineering teams, and other engineering teams at Amplitude.
• Mentor other engineers in best practices, training them to have an outsized impact on the codebase.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product and systems.
• Evangelize the work, sharing in large all-hands meetings changes proposed and measured success metrics.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Thrive in a technical leadership role on an engineering team, and are constantly seeking opportunities to encourage those around you to excel.
• Have a great understanding of current and emerging trends in software engineering and distributed systems.
• Constant desire to learn, grow, and take on additional responsibilities as an engineer.
• Strong practitioner of automated testing.
• Bonus points if you have feature flagging or AB testing knowledge and prior experience working on internal or external feature flagging and AB testing products.

At a minimum, you need to have:

• 5+ years of experience building robust, scalable software systems which consistently meet SLA requirements.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Experience writing production grade Java, and Python.

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: we’re 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 platform—we 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. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s 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 the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.
• We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 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. 
• We’re 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: $170,000 - $256,000 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: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

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