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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Amplitude 's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 74% of Amplitude 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Amplitude
- high 38 stale, 4 reposted of 39 open
- Hiring momentum
- 62 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Amplitude 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Amplitude .
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude, you will work on the OLAP engine, Nova, focusing on improving its performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability. Your responsibilities will include building core query engine infrastructure, optimizing system performance, and mentoring other engineers. You'll engage with various engineering teams to ensure Nova's capabilities deliver customer value while participating in on-call rotations to enhance operational excellence.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Amplitude as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years of industry experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with depth in distributed data systems
- Hands-on experience building or extending analytical/OLAP systems
- Track record of driving significant cost optimization on cloud infrastructure at scale
- Strong computer science fundamentals: distributed systems, data structures and algorithms, concurrency and multi-threading, performance optimization
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure
- Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python
Nice to have
- Experience with specific OLAP or query engine systems
- Deep JVM expertise
- Experience with columnar data formats and encodings
- Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, or event-driven data systems
- Contributions to open-source data infrastructure projects
What you get
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends for wellness, commuter transit, learning and development, home office equipment
- Excellent Parental benefits including Paid Parental Leave
- Mental health and wellness benefits including access to coaching and therapy
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies mentioned for the OLAP engine beyond general terms
- The role involves on-call responsibilities which may affect work-life balance
- Salary ranges are provided but vary by location, with no specific figure for the San Francisco Bay Area mentioned
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Listed by Amplitude on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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