Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a core SaaS junction: the data connectivity layer that determines how well a product fits into a customer’s existing stack. Building import and export infrastructure to platforms like Snowflake, S3, and Databricks is increasingly central for analytics and data-driven SaaS, where adoption often depends on reliable integrations as much as application features. The focus on throughput, latency, and uptime reflects the operational expectations of mature, usage-heavy SaaS products.
For someone building a long-term SaaS engineering career, the work translates across many product categories because it sharpens the fundamentals behind scalable multi-tenant systems and customer-facing platform capabilities. Owning services that manage connection lifecycles and credentials also develops practical experience with the boundary between product engineering and platform reliability, a common theme as SaaS companies expand ecosystems and partner integrations.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers backend problem solving where correctness, performance, and operability are first-class concerns. It aligns well with professionals who like collaborating beyond engineering to shape what gets built, and who want to deepen competence in distributed systems patterns, data movement, and infrastructure-aware development within a SaaS context.
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 Data Warehouse team builds the systems that connect Amplitude to the broader data ecosystem — import connectors that bring data in from external platforms (Snowflake, Azure Blob Storage, S3, Databricks, and more), and export infrastructure that pushes data back out to the tools customers already use. We also own the configuration layer that manages the lifecycle of those connections and credentials.
As a Software Engineer II on the Data Warehouse team, you'll help build and scale the systems that power these integrations. You'll tackle real infrastructure challenges — extreme throughput, millisecond-level latency, close-to-zero downtime — and collaborate closely with Product, Design, and customers to shape what we build next.
Our stack includes Java, Kafka, Temporal, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, GCS, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and Terraform. You'll bring your ideas to a group of curious, driven engineers who care deeply about the craft.
Responsibilities
- Take ideas from ideation to implementation
- Develop reliable and maintainable backend services that integrate with data warehouses and cloud platforms
- Optimize the performance and scale of our data import/export infrastructure to handle ever-increasing volume
- Collaborate with Product and Design to iterate on our product
- Contribute to engineering discussions and apply engineering best practices
- Participate in design and code reviews
Skills and Experience
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another related technical field
- 2+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering role and 1+ years of experience with Java
- Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design
- Passionate about data processing, solving challenging problems, and iterating quickly
- Previous experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed systems, or data analytics is a plus
Our values:
At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
- Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
- Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
- Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.
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:
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
- 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: $144,000 - $216,000 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: $160,000 - $240,000 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: $160,000 - $240,000 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: $144,000 - $216,000 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: $144,000 - $216,000 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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