amplitude

Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team

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At a Glance

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Compensation
nia: California salary range: $167,000 - $230,000 base salary (inclusive of bon
Posted
2026-07-15T01:13:15-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

SQL

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the hea

Requirements

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

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

Responsibilities

Every chart, insight, and experiment result a customer sees in Amplitude passes through the compute layer that this team owns.

Our team sits between Amplitude's front-end analytics products/ rest APIs/ MCPs and Nova, our proprietary analytics database, and owns the compute API that translates a user's question into a fast, correct answer.

enable a highly performant, reliable, and flexible way to compute insights.

Day to day, you'll work closely with engineers on data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and various product teams, since they're all consumers of what we build.

Team

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)

About the Company

We were recognized in the

Newsweek Excellence Index 2024

.

Our customers love us! They've said we're the

#1 product analytics solution

for 19 quarters in a row on G2.