Software Engineering Manager

Amplitude is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Query team through an inflection point, owning the vision and roadmap for the critical infrastructure pillar and making strategic calls to balance reliability with ambition.

Requirements

• 2+ years leading engineers (people management and/or tech lead) and 6+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data systems — OLAP databases, data warehouses, stream processing, or large-scale storage — and modern cloud infrastructure (AWS S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• A track record of meaningfully improving reliability, latency, or cost efficiency for a production system with clear SLOs and incident accountability.
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to define roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

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, 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)