Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a core SaaS lever: the systems that translate product usage into access, trials, upgrades, and revenue. Within a product analytics platform, that means working on the infrastructure behind product-led growth rather than a single feature surface, with direct connection to how customers discover value and how offerings are packaged and delivered.
For a SaaS engineering career, the learning is unusually portable. Building entitlements, pricing and packaging workflows, and usage instrumentation develops instincts around multi-tenant concerns, auditability, and change management that recur across subscription products. The cross-functional interface with PM, Design, and GTM also mirrors how SaaS companies operationalise growth, making this a strong bridge between backend craftsmanship and commercial outcomes.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers owning well-scoped platform slices end to end and is comfortable turning ambiguous inputs into durable APIs and data models. It will fit someone who enjoys reliability work alongside iteration, and who is motivated by systems that other teams depend on, where small architectural choices can materially affect adoption and monetisation paths.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About The Role & Team
The PLG + Growth Platform team is a high-impact, cross-functional group within Amplitude’s Product Adoption org. We build the backend systems that power how Amplitude grows — from how new products are launched to how customers discover, try, and upgrade them.
Our work isn’t internal plumbing. We design and maintain the infrastructure that shapes how customers experience value: what they can access, how trials are delivered, how usage is tracked, and how monetization flows through the platform. These systems directly influence adoption, upgrade paths, and revenue.
This is a backend-leaning full-stack role on a team that collaborates closely with PM, Design, GTM, and other engineering groups. You’ll own meaningful slices of the platform, influence architecture, and ship capabilities that other teams depend on — and that customers feel every day through entitlements, packaging, and upgrade flows.
If you want to work on the engine behind product-led growth, drive company-wide impact, and increase your ownership and autonomy, this role is for you.
As a Software Engineer II on Growth Platform, you will:
- Design and build backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, and GraphQL
- Own mid-sized projects end-to-end — from shaping requirements through launch — with guidance but not hand-holding
- Drive improvements to systems that power pricing, packaging, trials, entitlements, and monetization
- Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Design to deliver reliable, user-impacting infrastructure
- Build instrumentation and internal tooling to help us measure what’s working and unlock faster iteration
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and clarity of our core growth systems
- Contribute to architectural discussions and help evolve the platform as our products grow
- Use AI tools to accelerate your workflow while grounding decisions in actual system understanding
- Raise the bar for code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability
You'll be a great addition to the team if you:
- Have 2–4 years of experience building and maintaining production backend or full-stack systems
- Are comfortable designing and implementing APIs, services, and data models
- Write clean, maintainable code in JavaScript or TypeScript and think deeply about reliability and edge cases
- Can take a loosely defined problem and drive it toward a shipped solution
- Communicate clearly across disciplines and keep stakeholders aligned as work evolves
- Enjoy thinking in systems, abstractions, and long-term maintainability
- Care about unlocking product growth, not just writing technically correct code
- Thrive in fast-moving environments and bring a bias toward iteration and ownership
Bonus points if you:
- Have experience with Node.js backend systems at scale
- Have built GraphQL schemas or understand how to design effective data-fetching layers
- Are familiar with React.js and comfortable contributing full-stack when needed
- Have worked on infrastructure for growth — packaging, entitlements, trials, monetization, experimentation
- Enjoy diving into ambiguous or cross-team problems and creating clarity
- Use AI tools not just to type faster, but to explore ideas, validate assumptions, and reason more boldly
- Have strong product intuition and enjoy connecting technical decisions to business outcomes
- Are motivated by building systems that many internal teams rely on
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 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)
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 19 quarters in a row on G2.
- 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, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, 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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $138,000 - $207,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $138,000 - $207,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $138,000 - $207,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
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