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Staff Software Engineer - DevX

Amplitude · Remote - USA; San Francisco, CA

Posted about 2 months ago · $173,000 - $238,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
70 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 in the DevX team at Amplitude, you will focus on enhancing engineering velocity by developing and optimizing the cloud development platform and internal tooling. Your responsibilities include unifying development environments, automating engineering workflows, and providing technical leadership to improve the overall developer experience. This role requires you to take ownership of initiatives from conception to production, ensuring the team can ship code efficiently and effectively.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
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

  • Staff-level engineering experience and impact
  • Full-stack, infra-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side
  • Experience moving a team's development workflow into the cloud (VMs, remote environments, preview branches, sandboxes)
  • A 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 the 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

What you get

  • 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 for wellness, commuter transit/parking, learning and development, home office equipment, and 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
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Worth weighing

  • No specific technologies or programming languages mentioned in the posting
  • The role involves significant autonomy with low oversight, which may not suit everyone
  • The job description emphasizes a strong focus on automation and AI, which may require a shift in traditional engineering practices

Summarised from Amplitude 's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Amplitude on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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