Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
In SaaS, SDKs often determine whether a product becomes a default choice for developers or an option that gets evaluated and dropped. This Senior Software Engineer role sits at that adoption layer, where instrumentation reliability and integration ergonomics directly shape how teams implement analytics. The remit spans multiple language ecosystems, which is increasingly relevant as SaaS buyers run heterogeneous stacks across web, mobile, and backend services.
The career value here is depth in developer-facing platform engineering rather than feature delivery. Owning SDK performance, footprint, and maintenance tooling builds a durable skill set for SaaS companies that depend on integrations and ecosystem reach. The emphasis on AI-assisted development and scalable maintenance systems also aligns with a broader shift toward smaller teams supporting wider surface areas through automation and code generation.
This role suits an engineer who prefers product-adjacent infrastructure work and is comfortable being accountable for external developer experience end to end. It will appeal to someone who enjoys moving between languages, setting library standards, and making pragmatic trade-offs between correctness, usability, and speed. Prior exposure to APIs, SDKs, or open source-style maintenance patterns maps well to the day-to-day reality described.
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 and Team
At Amplitude, millions of developers instrument their products to understand how users behave. The first code they write with Amplitude is almost always through an SDK. That means our SDKs are not just integrations, they are the developer experience of Amplitude itself. We're building a new kind of SDK team:
Most companies hire SDK engineers per language.
We don't.
We're recruiting AI-assisted SDK wizards, engineers who:
- learn new languages quickly
- use AI to accelerate development
- build tooling to scale SDK maintenance
- own developer experience end-to-end
This role has unusually large scope and autonomy
What You'll Work On
- Build and maintain SDKs across many languages (e.g. TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, Swift, Rust)
- Use AI to scale SDK development - build systems that allow a small team to maintain many SDKs
- Own developer experience - improve how developers integrate with Amplitude
- Optimize SDK for latency, performance, bundle size, resource load
- Create external-facing agents that take advantage of the signals collected by our SDKs
- Build integrations with third parties
- Drive high engineering standards while knowing when speed beats perfection.
- Create a culture where people love the work, move fast, and deliver real outcomes.
You Might Be a Great Fit If:
- Experience building SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
- Open source library maintainership
- Experience across multiple language ecosystems
- Interest in developer experience and tooling
- Experience building platform tooling or code generation systems
Why This Team, Why Now?
- Huge scope - own SDKs used by thousands of developers
- Polyglot engineering - work across many ecosystems
- AI-augmented engineering - help define the future of SDK development
- Direct product impact - great SDKs drive adoption of Amplitude
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
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- 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), new hire home office equipment, and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 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
- 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: $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.
