# Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Compute Platform team

Hiring organization: [Amplitude](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/amplitude)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6a4681cd-3eb5-4435-97d4-6266dad08cb7

Listed on Amplitude's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 167000 – 230000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves designing and maintaining the query execution engine that powers analytics across Amplitude's product suite, sitting between customer-facing features and the underlying database. You'll work on distributed systems challenges like query planning, semantic layers, and data modeling while collaborating with multiple product teams that depend on your infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Amplitude's wording._

## Skills named

Data Infrastructure, SQL

## Required

- Backend or distributed systems engineering experience
- Experience with OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure
- SQL knowledge
- Understanding of tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use
- Track record of owning end-to-end cross-team projects
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

## Nice to have

- Experience with large-scale event or time-series data systems
- Experience designing semantic layers, ORMs, or data-modeling abstractions
- Familiarity with columnar databases or OLAP query engines
- Experience integrating data platforms with external tools or AI/agent workflows

Apply on Amplitude's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amplitude/jobs/8634061002