Staff Software Engineer - DevX
Required skills
- Staff Software Engineer
- DevX
- cloud-first workflows
- polyglot codebase
- AI agents
- CI/CD
- developer environments
- internal tooling
- deploy risk
- feedback latency
Nice to have
- Monorepo tooling
- large-scale platform migrations
- Agent harness infrastructure
- eval frameworks
- orchestration
- sandboxing for LLMs
Role summary
Amplitude is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their DevX team in Vancouver, Canada. This hybrid role focuses on enhancing engineering velocity by building systems, CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, and internal tooling to create a software factory. You will set the architecture for the developer platform, lead software factory initiatives, and drive cloud-first development workflows. The position requires staff-level engineering experience, full-stack and infra-leaning skills with a strong backend and systems focus. Experience moving development workflows to the cloud and shipping impactful developer tooling is essential. Hands-on experience with AI-powered engineering workflows is also required. Nice-to-haves include monorepo tooling and experience with LLM infrastructure.
Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.
As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.
Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
About the Team
DevX owns engineering velocity at Amplitude: build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. We're building a software factory: automated workflows that remove manual bottlenecks from how engineers ship code.
The Role
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer – DevX (Hybrid – Vancouver, Canada) who bridges infrastructure and application thinking and can accelerate how the whole team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud. You'll set architecture for our developer platform, lead our software factory work, and push our development model toward cloud-first workflows.
This is a high-leverage, low-oversight role. You'll own initiatives end to end, from an ambiguous problem to production, and set technical direction for a foundational team.
What You'll Do
What We're Looking For
Nice to Have
Who We Are
The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
Some of our benefit programs include:
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
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.
This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
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Sample Amplitude interview questions
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Design a consensus algorithm for ensuring data consistency across distributed systems.
system designmedium - 2
Merge Overlapping Intervals: Merge overlapping intervals in an array.
codingmedium - 3
Search for a word in a 2D board of characters. Input: board = [["C","A","A"],["A","A","A"],["B","C","D"]], word = "AAB" Output: TRUE Explanation: DFS traverses adjacent matching letters perfectly, finding "AAB" without improperly revisiting any cells.
codingmedium - 4
Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters: Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters.
codingmedium - 5
Add Two Numbers Represented as Strings Add two non-negative integers represented as strings. Input: num1 = "456", num2 = "77" Output: "533" Explanation: Performs character-by-character addition from right to left, carrying the 1 from 6+7=13 to the next decimal place.
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