Amplitude - Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team
Requirements
• Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems • Experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or other data-modeling abstractions • Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines • Experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows • Example projects you might work on • New compute schema and parallelization — redesigning how queries are represented internally to unlock faster, more parallelizable execution. • New compute schema and parallelization • Deeper session-based analysis — extending our session-analysis capabilities with new filters and formula support. • Deeper session-based analysis • Smarter result caching — improving both the actual and perceived speed of the query engine. • Smarter result caching • Extending SQL as an interface into Amplitude's data lets AI agents, third-party tools, and warehouse-native workflows query Amplitude data directly and reliably. Paving the way for us to run directly on an external warehouse. • Extending SQL as an interface into Amplitude's data • Bringing non-event data into the core model — representing things like customer profile properties, sessions, and lookup tables alongside event data, so features can be built against a single consistent model quickly and computed efficiently. • Bringing non-event data into the core model • Data access controls, giving enterprise admins fine-grained control over who can access sensitive data, so they can confidently expand what they send into Amplitude and who can use it. • Data access controls • 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 Company: • 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. • The Product: • 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. • We care about the well-being of our team: • 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 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)
Responsibilities
• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude's product suite • Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table • Help unify and evolve our core data model, including how non-event data (profile properties, lookup tables, etc.) is represented alongside event data • Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine • Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them • Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through rollout • You'll be a great addition to the team if you have • Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally touching OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure • Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on • Comfort reasoning about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use and making deliberate calls between them • A track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end-to-end rather than just executing well-scoped tickets • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; this team's work only matters in the context of the products built on top of it
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