Position: Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI San Francisco, CA
Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—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 by G2, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.
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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.
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The Role & Team
The Work spaces team is a core vertical product team responsible for driving engagement and retention of our core Analytics product. We’ve been industry leaders in the data visualization space and have first in class tools in behavioral analytics. We are taking the next step in this journey by automating insights and workflows that are performed manually by our customers today.
As a Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI, you will:
• Partner closely with PM and Design, and AI Infra teams to build workflows, automations, and insights that leverage our existing products.
• Collaborate with AI Infra teams to both define and expand existing capabilities.
• Build agentic workflows for our core use cases (data analysis through charts and dashboards).
• Integrate with LLMs and experiment with different methodologies of providing context to generate relevant and actionable insights.
• Launch and drive adoption of automated insights.
You’ll be a great addition to the team if you have:
• Experience building products leveraging LLMs.
• Experience building and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Experience with both relational and No
SQL databases.
• Experience shipping consumer facing products leveraging LLMs.
• Belief in shipping quickly and learning through experimentation.
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 proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
We care about the well‑being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well‑being of our Ampliteers.
Benefits programs include:
• 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 to spend on what matters most to you—wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more.
• 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 (select U.S. locations only).
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