# Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team at Amplitude

- Company: Amplitude
- What the company does: From analytics to feedback to code, Amplitude brings AI into every step of building self-improving products. Start free with 2M events per month. Backed by Battery, Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.amplitude.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $167K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amplitude/jobs/8634061002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/amplitude-senior-software-engineer-analytics-compute-platform-team/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering : Digital Analytics