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Staff Software Engineer - DevX

Amplitude
Location
Remote - USA; San Francisco, CA
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Engineering : AI Foundation
Salary
$173,000 - $238,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Staff-level engineering experience and impact
  • Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side
  • Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes)
  • A track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity
  • Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight
  • Strong judgment, clear writing, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority
Nice to have
  • Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migrations
  • Agent harness infrastructure: eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs
What the job really is

As a Staff Software Engineer in the DevX team at Amplitude, you will focus on enhancing engineering velocity by developing and optimizing the cloud development platform and internal tooling. Your responsibilities include unifying development environments, automating engineering workflows, and providing technical leadership to improve the overall developer experience. This role requires you to take ownership of initiatives from conception to production, ensuring the team can ship code efficiently and effectively.

Benefits
  • 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 for wellness, commuter transit/parking, learning and development, home office equipment, and 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
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Things to weigh
  • No specific technologies or programming languages mentioned in the posting
  • The role involves significant autonomy with low oversight, which may not suit everyone
  • The job description emphasizes a strong focus on automation and AI, which may require a shift in traditional engineering practices
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