Software Engineer I
$125k - $188k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 10d ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
The Agent Analytics team at Amplitude builds systems to help customers understand and improve their AI agents by transforming agent traces, conversations, and evaluation results into actionable insights. These insights are then connected with the broader product experience through reliable, easily explorable, and fast-querying backend services and data infrastructure. As a Software Engineer I on this team, you will contribute to the foundation of a growing AI analytics product, starting with well-scoped backend and data pipeline features. You will gain experience processing agent traces, building APIs for data exploration and export, and enhancing the performance and reliability of analytics systems, learning how engineering decisions impact customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship backend features and APIs for exploring agent sessions, traces, and evaluation results, with guidance.
- Contribute to data pipelines for ingesting, enriching, synchronizing, and exporting agent data, including tests and validation.
- Investigate and resolve slow queries and pipeline issues to improve data freshness, processing throughput, and feature responsiveness.
- Write maintainable code and automated tests, participate in code reviews, and debug services and background jobs using logs and metrics.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to understand customer needs and deliver well-scoped improvements from implementation to rollout, with mentorship.
Requirements
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 0-2 years of professional software engineering experience, including internships.
- Comfortable programming in at least one language such as TypeScript, Python, Java, or similar.
- Solid foundation in programming fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
- Curiosity about AI agents, their measurement, and a desire to learn backend systems, data pipelines, and analytical databases.
- Exposure to SQL, backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, or data pipelines is a plus.
- Projects involving AI agents, LLM applications, tracing, or evaluations are welcome.
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- 10 to 13 holidays annually
- Medical, dental, and vision PPO and CDHP plans
- Company-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums