Staff Software Engineer - DevX
$198k - $299k • Remote-NAMER • FullTime
Posted 2mo ago
About the job
Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their DevX team, focusing on enhancing engineering velocity. This hybrid role in San Francisco involves bridging infrastructure and application development to accelerate how the team develops, tests, and ships code in the cloud. You will be responsible for setting the architecture for the developer platform, leading the software factory initiative, and driving the development model towards cloud-first workflows. This is a high-leverage, low-oversight position where you will own initiatives from conception to production and define the technical direction for a foundational team.
Responsibilities
- Unify and scale local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase.
- Ensure fast and reliable provisioning of environments, building, testing, debugging, and validation of changes for engineers and AI agents.
- Automate the biggest bottlenecks in the engineering workflow, including building sandboxes and tooling for AI agents.
- Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling to reduce build/CI time, deploy risk, and feedback latency.
- Set technical direction and standards for the team.
- Translate ambiguous problems into actionable roadmaps.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers through design reviews and pairing.
Requirements
- Staff-level engineering experience and demonstrated impact.
- Full-stack experience with a strong backend and systems focus.
- Experience migrating a team's development workflow to the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes).
- Proven track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity.
- Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows with human oversight.
- Strong judgment, clear written communication, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority.
Benefits
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans.
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more.
- Generous stipends for wellness, commuter transit/parking, learning and development, and home office equipment.
- Excellent Parental benefits including 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).