Senior Software Engineer, Middleware

The Middleware team is a critical component of Amplitude's analytics platform, focused on enhancing our compute API and semantic layer that power our analysis tools. We strive to make the compute API more flexible, user-friendly, and performant, often balancing these goals to deliver the best experience for our customers. The team collaborates closely with various other teams and products such as Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams.

As we accelerate our multi-product strategy and aim to win the marketer segment, we are tackling several challenges to support the company's product vision. This role will play a pivotal part in driving a wide variety of projects and defining the long-term vision of our compute API.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

• Drive performance and scalability improvements for our compute API and semantic layer from ideation to implementation.
• Enhance the flexibility and usability of our compute API to support diverse analysis types and support different personas.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support multi-product integration initiatives.
• Identify and contribute to the infrastructure roadmap for the Middleware team.

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

• Experience with API development and making services flexible and easy to use.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to use monitoring tools to quickly diagnose and fix performance, correctness, and stability issues
• Familiarity with analytics platforms and understanding of user event data is a plus.

At a minimum you'll need:

• Experience building and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, Java, or Typescript.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Background in building high-performance, scalable backend systems.

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.

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 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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