About The Role & Team

Session Replay is Amplitude’s first foray into the bigger space of experience analytics - combining quantitative and qualitative insights to gain deeper understanding of customer behavior. Session Replay allows customers to watch playback videos of their users on their products or website. The Session Replay team at Amplitude helps customers more easily understand the “why” behind the metrics they’re analyzing and gain more confidence to take faster action, by enabling them to effortlessly move from the macro quantitative picture to the micro user session experience. Connecting session replays to Amplitude’s quantitative charts allows customers to quickly and intuitively hypothesize and understand the cause of a change in customer behavior. 

We are looking for a backend engineer to help us:

• 100x our scale for ingesting and processing qualitative data to reliably serve the traffic from customers who are among the most visited websites globally
• Define the foundations for qualitative information storage and retrieval at Amplitude

The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve cross-team alignment on technical design tradeoffs for the short, medium and long term. 

 As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Lead projects for features that have high business impact
• Lead the team on defining SLAs and upholding operational excellence for the SR ingestion systems
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
• Lead performance optimization and scaling efforts
• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
• Develop components and services that expand the capabilities of our analytics product
• Participate and collaborate with Product and Design Team to iterate on our product
• Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices
• Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers

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

• Have a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
• Have 6 years of industry experience in a Software Engineering role
• Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
• Have designed, operated and maintained large distributed systems in production
• Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
• Have strong experience with one of: (Java, C , C#, Go)
• Have experience designing and managing AWS compatible platforms or systems to achieve high volume, COGS competitive distributed data processing
• Have familiarity with one of: (Python, Javascript, Typescript)
• Have working knowledge of a columnar OLAP database
• Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team

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.

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 ​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: 

• G2 Customer Reviews: #1 product analytics solution for 13 quarters in a row.
• Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on.
• Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.
• 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: $199,000 - $300,000 total target cash inclusive of bonus.

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: $180,000 - $270,000 total target cash inclusive of bonus.

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