Staff Software Engineer, SDK - San Francisco, United States - Amplitude

Description

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 2,300 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike's, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, 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.

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.

Amplitude's Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): 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.

About The Role & Team

We're looking for an engineer to work within our SDK engineering team, which is an integral piece of our analytics ecosystem. You will have full ownership of our open source data collection libraries and plugins. These products are used by thousands of customers to send tens of billions of events to Amplitude each month. If you're passionate about building software that wows other developers and changes the way they think about analytics

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:

• Build, manage and maintain all SDKs that Amplitude provides to our customers to bring data into Amplitude
• Reduce friction in the data setup experience all the way from SDK integration to building the first chart within Amplitude.
• Evaluate and implement the best APIs and developer experiences for analytics tracking on web across typescript and javascript
• As one of the team's polyglots, write and test code in multiple programming languages, often on the same day.
• Provide technical customer support to engineers deploying our analytics SDKs in their applications.
• Write developer documentation published in READMEs and our technical docs site.
• Extend CI/CD to automate the build process, testing, and deployment of SDKs to their respective package managers.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products.
• Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices.

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

• Experience building SDKs or libraries for browsers.
• Familiarity with building apps for React Native and Flutter. Experience working full-stack is a big plus.
• Attention to detail and obsession over fit-and-finish and design perfection.
• Experience shipping libraries with elegant APIs used broadly within your company or externally as OSS.

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:

• 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 500TM
• 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, Japan, and Australia.
• 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.

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