Amplitude is seeking an experienced Staff IT Security Engineer to design and build controls that define how Amplitude leverages frontier AI tooling at scale. This is a high-scope, hands-on position focused entirely on corporate and enterprise security, specifically tackling the risks that AI tools and AI-enabled workflows introduce into our environment.
Requirements
- Experience: 5–8+ years in enterprise/corporate security with hands-on depth in at least two of the following areas: identity (Okta), endpoint (CrowdStrike/Kandji), SaaS security, or detection engineering.
- Autonomy & Ownership: You are a self-starter and self-managing, capable of working problems independently from initial triage through remediation; you execute independently within defined program direction.
- Technical Skills: Ability to regularly write code or scripts (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate reviews, build detections, or debug configuration issues without looping in engineering.
- AI Curiosity: A genuine curiosity about AI security is essential, and you are already thinking about risks from LLMs, agents, and AI-native tooling.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills are paramount for coordinating cross-functional partners (Legal/Privacy, Engineering, IT) and presenting clear, tactical, and operational decisions to both technical teams and executive audiences.
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)
- Unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans, company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan (for Washington state employees)
