# Staff Software Engineer 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: $198K to $299K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amplitude/jobs/8512903002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/amplitude-staff-software-engineer/

## About the role

Every AI insight, every experiment, every cohort at Amplitude starts with a query. Our in-house OLAP engine, Nova , processes trillions of events in real time — turning raw behavioral data into fast, trustworthy answers that power decisions for thousands of product teams worldwide.

## What they're looking for

- Gets energy from working deep inside a complex distributed system — understanding how data flows through it, where the bottlenecks are, and how to make it meaningfully better
- Has built or significantly extended an OLAP engine, columnar database, query processor, or large-scale data processing system — not just operated one
- Thinks about cost, performance, and reliability as interconnected concerns, not separate workstreams
- Communicates clearly about technical tradeoffs and earns influence through the quality of your work and ideas, not through title
- Finds it natural to help other engineers level up — through pairing, design reviews, or just being the person who explains the “why” behind a system’s design
- 7+ years of industry experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with depth in distributed data systems

Tags: Engineering : Data