Senior Platform Engineer

Amplitude is a leading AI analytics platform serving over 4,700 customers, including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square. The company is ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2's Winter 2026 Report.

As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will own medium-to-high-complexity platform projects end-to-end, helping rebuild systems for the AI era. You will partner with Staff engineers and product teams to make Kubernetes effortless across the engineering org, building self-service automation and scalable AWS infrastructure.

• Lead high-impact platform projects, setting the bar for quality, testing, and safe deployment practices.
• Design tooling and workflows for AI-assisted development, including infra primitives, automated review, and policy-as-code.
• Own Infrastructure-as-Code for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and emerging tooling.
• Evolve CI/CD backbone (Argo CD / Workflows / Rollouts, GitHub Actions).
• Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, own dashboards and SLOs, and participate in on-call and incident response.
• Reduce toil and tech debt with pragmatic remediation plans.
• Translate product needs into platform features by partnering with product engineering teams.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and help onboard new teammates.
• Shape the roadmap by spotting high-leverage opportunities.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• Production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem) and containerized applications at scale.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python preferred) and IaC tooling (Terraform).
• Working knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, S3) and networking/security fundamentals.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem (Argo, Helm, Backstage, Envoy).
• Track record of delivering projects that improved reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
• Curiosity and conviction about AI as a force multiplier in infrastructure work.
• Strong communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and using data to de-risk decisions.

Eligible for equity, benefits, and other compensation. Salary ranges vary by location: Colorado: $165,000 - $247,000; New York City: $183,000 - $276,000; San Francisco Bay Area: $183,000 - $276,000; California (outside SF Bay Area): $165,000 - $247,000; Washington: $165,000 - $247,000 (total target cash, inclusive of bonus or commission).

Apply directly on Amplitude's Greenhouse page. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment during the application process.