Senior Product Engineer, Activation

About Amplitude Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,300 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Square, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self‑service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best‑in‑class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Summer 2025 Report.

Our Culture As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

Activation Team The Activation team at Amplitude is building a leading insights‑driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost‑effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.

Platform Overview We are responsible for building features to help customers find the right audience to target, visualize their customer journey to plan interventions and build scalable real‑time and batch data pipelines along with an ecosystem of integrations that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform supports over 100+ integrations and processes over 800 petabytes of data per month and it is growing rapidly.

Position: Senior Product Engineer We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join our Activation team. In this role, someone who isn’t afraid to take on the challenges of building and evolving a highly‑sophisticated, data‑intensive enterprise product. As one of the senior members of the engineering team, you will be responsible for building innovative interfaces and cross‑cutting architectural improvements for our Activation Platform, enabling self‑serving data connections, simplifying customer insights generation, and ensuring a seamlessly integrated user experience with other Amplitude products.

Responsibilities

Lead projects, from ideation and implementation, through to launch.

Develop new features for data connection management and customer insights discovery using TypeScript, React/Redux, HTML, and CSS.

Develop APIs and business logic in Python/Java to support product functionality.

Integrate with backend services and improve our API infrastructure built with Python, Java, Node, GraphQL and Postgres.

Collaborate cross‑functionally with product and design teams to iterate on our product.

Lead engineering discussions and drive engineering best practices.

Mentor and contribute to the success of junior engineers.

Qualifications

Passion for driving customer value, you think about how your work delivers value to customers.

Interest in customer interaction, iterating with customers to develop novel innovative products.

Attention to detail and commitment to high‑quality, maintainable code.

Technical leadership in your current team. Other team members seek you out for mentorship and advice.

Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, algorithms, and system design.

Enthusiasm for working across frontend and backend technologies to take full ownership of the problem.

Pride yourself in your excellent attention to detail and your design and UX sensibilities.

Minimum Requirements

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field.

5+ years of experience working as a Product Engineer, or a full‑stack engineer with a front‑end focus.

Previous experience with one or more JavaScript application frameworks (React/Redux, Angular, Backbone, etc.)

Previous experience with backend development in Python/Java is a plus.

Who We Are 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.

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 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, fertility benefits/adoption/Surrogacy support, backup 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).

Fun Facts

We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.

Our customers love us! They’ve said we’re the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.

We’re focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500™.

We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.

We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.

We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.

We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.

We’re a global and fast‑growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Equal Employment Opportunity Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Compensation and Equity This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Salary Information

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area: salary range $170,000 – $256,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission).

California salary range for individuals who will work for Amplitude outside San Francisco Bay Area: $154,000 – $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission).

Based on legislation in California, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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