Senior Software Engineer (Analytics Compute Platform)

Join Amplitude, a leading product analytics platform, as a Senior Software Engineer (Middleware). In this role, you will work on the compute layer that powers Amplitude's analytics products, collaborating with various teams to design and build core parts of the query/compute engine. You will take ownership of projects from design through rollout, improving performance, reliability, and scalability. Enjoy a generous benefits package, including flexible vacation time, wellness stipends, and equity options.

• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across Amplitude's product suite.
• Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the Amplitude query engine.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; this team's work only matters in the context of the products built on top of it
• 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 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
• Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems
• Experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or other data-modeling abstractions
• Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines
• Experience integrating a data platform with external tools or AI/agent workflows