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$167,000 – $230,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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