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Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure )

San Francisco, CA · Staff

$198,000 – $331,000

Listed on Amplitude’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role involves designing and optimizing Amplitude's Nova OLAP engine to handle AI agent workloads at scale, working across query execution, storage, and cloud infrastructure. It suits experienced systems engineers who excel at making distributed data systems faster, cheaper, and more reliable while mentoring peers.

Our summary, not Amplitude’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

7+ years backend or infrastructure engineering experience
Deep expertise in distributed data systems and OLAP/query engine architecture
Hands-on experience building or extending analytical systems
Track record of driving cloud infrastructure cost optimization at scale
Strong distributed systems fundamentals: partitioning, replication, consistency, failover
Data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization knowledge
Production experience with modern cloud platforms and tools
Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python
Demonstrated technical influence beyond immediate team through design and mentorship

Nice to have

Experience with specific OLAP engines: Druid, ClickHouse, Presto/Trino, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar
Deep JVM expertise including GC tuning and memory optimization at production scale
Columnar data format and encoding experience: Arrow, Parquet, ORC
Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, or event-driven data systems
Open-source data infrastructure contributions or published data systems research