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$198,000 – $331,000
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What this role is
This role involves deep technical work on Amplitude's Nova OLAP engine, optimizing a distributed query system that powers analytics for thousands of customers and increasingly autonomous AI agents. It's ideal for a systems engineer who enjoys solving complex performance and reliability problems across the full stack of a modern data platform.
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Skills this role names
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Kafka
- C++
- ClickHouse
- DynamoDB
- Google BigQuery
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Presto
- Python
- Redis
- Snowflake
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- 7+ years backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Built or significantly extended an OLAP, columnar database, or query engine system
- Driven significant cloud infrastructure cost optimization at scale
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals including partitioning, replication, consistency, failover
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python
- Demonstrated technical influence beyond immediate team through design leadership and mentorship
Nice to have
- Experience with OLAP systems like Druid, ClickHouse, Presto, Trino, BigQuery, or Snowflake
- Deep JVM expertise in GC tuning, profiling, and memory optimization
- Knowledge of columnar data formats and encodings like Arrow, Parquet, or ORC
- Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, or event-driven data systems
- Open-source contributions or published work in data systems