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Senior Software Engineer

Amplitude Vancouver, BC, Canada Full-time Engineering : Data Posted Jun 4, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Amplitude

Product Analytics · San Francisco

3.8
Employee Rating
3.9
Work-Life Balance
55
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Competitive comp and benefits — employees rate compensation 4.4/5
  • Strong work-life balance with flexible time off and wellness stipends

What could be better

  • Frequent leadership changes lead to shifting priorities every few months
  • Post-IPO growing pains — layoffs and restructuring since 2023
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About the Role

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and 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, and 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, and 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, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About our Team

Our infrastructure teams build and operate the backend systems that power Amplitude's products at massive scale — handling more than 1 trillion events per month. We work on the systems that move, store, transform, and serve customer data: real-time and batch ingestion, identity resolution, data import and export connectors, privacy and compliance, and the operational reliability of everything in between.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll take on complex infrastructure challenges: designing for extreme throughput, optimizing for millisecond latencies, and building resilient systems that run with close to zero downtime. You'll work closely with Product and partner engineering teams to shape the roadmap and turn customer needs into reliable, well-architected systems. Our stack is primarily Java and Python, running on Kafka, Temporal, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

This is a senior role, so beyond your own delivery you'll be a technical anchor for the team: leading design discussions, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for how we build.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

Our Values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

We care about the well-being of our team: At Amplitude, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your physical, emotional, and financial well-being. We believe that our employees should have access to high-quality healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits that allow them to focus on their work and their personal lives.

Our benefits package includes:

We are committed to creating a globally consistent and locally sensitive benefits plan that meets the needs of our employees around the world, regardless of where they live. We believe that our benefits are an important part of our employee value proposition and that they help us to attract and retain top talent. We encourage you to learn more about our benefits package and to see how we can support your well-being.

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry,


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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Amplitude?
Amplitude has a work-life balance score of 3.9/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Amplitude’s culture like?
Amplitude is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, learning, product-impact, equity. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.8/5. Competitive comp and benefits — employees rate compensation 4.4/5
How many open roles does Amplitude have?
Amplitude currently has 55 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
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