Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

About The Role & Team

Amplitude is the pioneer in digital optimization software. More than 1,400 customers, including Atlassian, Instacart, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to power their digital products. Amplitude makes product data accessible to every member of an organization, empowering them to make data-driven decisions that fuel faster product innovation and 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.

We’re a team of full-stack engineers building a new way for software teams to capture high quality product analytics. Designing best-in-class developer experiences is core to our mission and you will be working with our most popular SDKs, code generation tools, and static code analyzers. If you’re passionate about building software that wows other developers and changes the way they think about analytics, please reach out, we would love to chat!

 As a Software Engineer II focused on Developer Experience, you will: 

• Develop analytics SDKs for a variety of platforms (iOS, Android, Go, PHP, and others).
• Evaluate and implement the best API and developer experience for analytics tracking on each platform.
• As one of the team’s polyglots, write and test code in multiple programming languages, often on the same day.
• Integrate with 3rd party SDKs and HTTP APIs to expand the number of supported analytics destinations.
• Manage each SDK’s open source project, release cycle, and its GitHub community.
• Implement code generation services and AST-based linters for each SDK.
• 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.

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

• Have strong knowledge of some of these languages, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript and Typescript. Knowledge of PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, or C# is desired — or you’re ready  to learn those that are still foreign.
• Design code libraries with elegant APIs used broadly within an organization or externally in an open source environment.
• Relentlessly debug difficult-to-reproduce problems in foreign environments your code may be running in.
• Prioritize and incorporate customer feedback back into the product.
• Communicate thoughts, opinions, and feelings to teammates and customers concisely and actionably.

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. 

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a 12-week parental leave, a subscription to Modern Health, and a generous Learning & Development stipend. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital optimization system – we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and ultimately grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers  companies to thrive in the digital era. 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• Amplitude is a tech company to bet your career on in 2021, according to Business Insider.
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL. 
• Amplitude is the #1 product analytics solution according to G2.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures,, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• Not only are tech leaders like PayPal, Shopify and Square using Amplitude, but so are some of the biggest, most enduring companies in the world like Walmart and NBC Universal.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We’ve hired more than 300 people in 2021 and have operations in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore.
• 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.

Amplitude’s D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive. 

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