Staff Software Engineer (DevX)

• 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
• We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer – DevX 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
• Cloud development platform: Unify and scale our existing local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase
• Make it fast and reliable for engineers and AI agents to provision environments, build, test, debug, and validate changes, with reproducible test data and clear access controls
• Software factory: Find the biggest bottleneck in the engineering workflow, automate it, then move to the next one. This increasingly means building the sandboxes and tooling that let AI agents do the work directly, not just assist with it
• Developer experience & tooling: Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling. Drive down build/CI time, deploy risk, and feedback latency
• Technical leadership: Set direction and standards, turn ambiguous problems into roadmaps, and mentor senior/staff engineers through design review and pairing

Benefits

• We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
• We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
• We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
• Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price- Experience moving a team’s development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes)
• Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight
• Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side
• Strong judgment, clear writing, and the ability to drive alignment without formal authority
• A track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity
• Staff-level engineering experience and impact
• Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migrations
• Agent harness infrastructure: eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs- Please note that all responses provided during your interview process must be entirely your own. The use of real-time AI tools, browser extensions, live text generators, teleprompters, or external generative assistance (such as ChatGPT or similar tools) during any stage of the assessment or interview is strictly prohibited