Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Platform engineering roles matter in SaaS because they directly shape how quickly and safely product teams can ship. This Senior Platform Engineer position sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and developer experience, with an added emphasis on enabling AI-assisted workflows as part of the platform itself. That focus reflects a broader SaaS trend: treating internal platforms as products, where automation and guardrails are designed for both humans and increasingly capable agents.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work described builds durable leverage. Owning end-to-end platform projects, evolving CI/CD, and setting SLO-driven observability practices are transferable across modern subscription businesses where reliability and release velocity are tightly linked to retention. The role also signals exposure to the operational realities of SaaS, including incident response and postmortem-driven improvement, which are core to running always-on services.
This is best suited to engineers who like ambiguous, systems-level problems and prefer impact through enablement rather than feature delivery. It fits someone comfortable partnering across product teams, translating needs into shared primitives, and raising engineering standards through tooling, documentation, and mentorship. Candidates interested in how AI changes infrastructure workflows, without treating it as a side project, will find the mandate especially aligned.
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
Amplitude's Cloud Platform team builds the systems that every Amplitude engineer relies on every day to ship code — and we're rebuilding them for the AI era. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll own medium-to-high-complexity platform projects end-to-end and help shape a platform where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans: kicking off deploys, opening pull requests against infrastructure, and triaging incidents, so a single engineer can get the throughput of a team.
You'll partner with Staff engineers and product teams to make Kubernetes effortless across the engineering org, building self-service automation and scalable AWS infrastructure that lets product teams ship faster, safer, and with less cognitive load. If you're excited about building the systems that other engineers will rely on every day, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact platform projects — design and ship capabilities that move the needle on developer experience, reliability, or security, and set the bar for quality, testing, and safe deployment practices.
- Build the AI-augmented platform. Design tooling and workflows that help engineers get more out of AI-assisted development — think infra primitives that are easy to reason about, automated review, and policy-as-code that keeps the guardrails strong as AI shifts how code gets written.
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and emerging tooling — and make it consumable enough that an LLM can safely PR against it.
- Evolve our CI/CD backbone (Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts, GitHub Actions) to make deploys faster, safer, and easier to reason about.
- Instrument and operate. Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, own dashboards and SLOs, and use the data to push reliability forward.
- Participate in on-call, lead incident response when needed, and turn postmortems into durable platform improvements.
- Reduce toil and tech debt with pragmatic remediation plans that account for future requirements and operational cost.
- Translate product needs into platform features by partnering closely with product engineering teams.
- Mentor and multiply. Coach junior and mid-level engineers, support their growth, and onboard new teammates — including helping the team get more leverage out of AI-assisted development.
- Shape the roadmap by spotting high-leverage opportunities and scoping them to maximize impact.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, with serious hands-on time in cloud infrastructure.
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem) and containerized applications at meaningful scale.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python preferred) and IaC tooling (Terraform).
- Working knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, S3) and networking/security fundamentals.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem (Argo, Helm, Backstage, Envoy, and friends).
- A track record of delivering projects that measurably improved reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
- Curiosity and conviction about AI as a force multiplier in infrastructure work — whether that's using AI-assisted development tools to ship faster or building platforms and tooling that help your teammates get more leverage from AI in their day-to-day work.
- Strong communicator — you can break down complex topics for varied audiences and default to collaborative problem solving.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity by validating assumptions early and using data to de-risk technical decisions.
- A pragmatic, business-aligned engineering mindset and a habit of continuous learning.
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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: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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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