Director of Engineering
San Francisco
Engineering
Full-time
At Amplitude, we’re building analytics that helps our customers use data to build better products and drive growth. We’re already the analytics platform of choice for many top product teams around the world including Microsoft, Square, and Hubspot. Backed by top VCs - Battery Ventures, Benchmark and YCombinator - our team is defining the future of how companies interact with data to build better products.
We're looking for a Director of Engineering to lead and grow our platform engineering team and and inspire them to do great work. You will oversee the development of our core analytics platform and underlying systems process hundreds of billions of events per month for thousands of enterprise customers. Our team has built sophisticated data ingestion pipelines and our own in-house database engine optimized for analyzing user behavior in real-time. Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including Python, Java, Kafka, Redis, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch.
You may be a good fit if:
- You have a track record of leading highly productive engineering teams.
- You attract great teammates and high performing engineers.
- You encourage a healthy work environment that’s both supportive and challenging.
- You’re excited to help engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers.
- You understand what makes teams successful and what role a manager can play in that process.
- You’re clear and persuasive in writing and in person.
- You lead by example, by setting the right context, and by helping teammates do their best work.
- You know when to let a team work through problems and when to jump in to help.
- You’re technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
- You were previously an engineer and built complex distributed systems, large scale data processing or analytics products.
- You are comfortable moving fast and shipping fast.
- You have 10 years experience in software engineering. Ideally at least 5 years engineering management experience.
- You have a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field.
About Amplitude
At Amplitude, we’re on a mission to help product teams understand their users’ behavior so that they can build better products. We’ve built a product analytics platform that enables anyone, regardless of analytics experience, to listen to what their users are telling them through user behavior.
Founded in 2012, Amplitude is located in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. We recently raised a $30M Series C and are backed by IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Y Combinator. You can learn more about our team, culture, and environment at https://amplitude.com/careers.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
