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Amplitude is a leading AI analytics platform serving over 4,700 customers including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square. The company helps product, data, and marketing teams analyze user behavior and optimize digital experiences.
The DevX team owns engineering velocity at Amplitude, building systems, CI/CD infrastructure, developer environments, and internal tooling. This role is a high-leverage, low-oversight position where you'll own initiatives end-to-end from ambiguous problems to production.
Key responsibilities:
**Cloud Development Platform**: Unify and scale existing local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase. Make provisioning, building, testing, debugging, and validation fast and reliable for engineers and AI agents, with reproducible test data and clear access controls.
**Software Factory**: Identify the biggest bottleneck in the engineering workflow, automate it, then move to the next. Increasingly, this means building sandboxes and tooling that enable AI agents to do work directly, not just assist.
**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.
You'll bridge infrastructure and application thinking to accelerate how the whole team develops, tests, and ships in the cloud. You'll set architecture for the developer platform and push the development model toward cloud-first workflows.
**Requirements:**
- Staff-level engineering experience and demonstrated impact
- Full-stack, infrastructure-leaning skills with strong backend and systems expertise
- Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes)
- Track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity
- Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight
- Strong judgment, clear writing, and ability to drive alignment without formal authority
**Nice to Have:**
- Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migrations
- Agent harness infrastructure: eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs
