Senior Platform Engineer
Amplitude•3h ago
United StatesOnsite$165K–$276KFull-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
Top focus
Platform Engineer
- Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal
- Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test
- optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data
- marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com .
- As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset
- put our customers at the center of everything we do.
- Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems
- drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy
- human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California.
- 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
- Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington
- 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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Required skills
KubernetesAWSTerraformPythonGolangGitOpsDatadog