Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

About the Role

Amplitude’s Platform team is the foundation for how our engineers build, deploy, and operate software. We manage our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, developer tooling, and the golden path for delivering reliable, secure, and cost-efficient systems - and we do it by taking a software development approach to problem solving.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team of highly experienced engineers. This role is critical to ensuring daily tactical success while also evolving our infrastructure and developer experience. You will balance hands-on technical credibility with transformational leadership, enabling the team to deliver effectively today while shaping how Amplitude builds software in the future.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage the Infra Platform team of engineers, fostering a culture of business impact, ownership, accountability, and customer-centricity.
• Provide technical leadership in Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tooling, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code — guiding the team with credible insights and judgment.
• Spend ~30% of your time hands on - code contributions will very much be part of the day to day. We have tools written in Go, Python, Node, Javascript, etc.
• Drive AI transformation in developer experience by identifying and implementing ways to use AI/LLMs beyond code generation — such as automating Platform onboarding, using AI Ops to auto-heal systems, or other abstractions that simplify developer workflows and eliminate copy/paste patterns.
• Own people management responsibilities:
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching, and ensure engagement across the team.
• Run performance reviews, hold team members accountable to growth plans, and make promotion and compensation recommendations.
• Recognize and reward progress, celebrate successes, and ensure engineers feel supported and challenged.
• Drive alignment within a team of strong, experienced engineers — facilitating healthy debate, making trade-offs, and ensuring the team delivers cohesive solutions.
• Ensure high code quality and engineering standards by actively reviewing, providing feedback, and spotting quality trends at both the individual and team level.
• Partner cross-functionally with Security Engineering, FinOps, and Product Engineering teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions that benefit all of Engineering and/or our products.
• Contribute to strategic direction of the platform organization, while ensuring day-to-day operational success and tactical execution.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Proven leadership experience managing a team of senior/staff-level engineers, ideally in a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience domain.
• Strong technical background in cloud-native infrastructure: Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem tools, CI/CD, observability, infra-as-code (Terraform or equivalents).
• Ability to judge and coach technical quality — not necessarily by writing every line of code, but by understanding engineering trade-offs and maintaining high standards.
• Transformational leadership mindset with a track record (or strong passion) for leveraging AI/LLMs to improve developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Customer-centricity: Demonstrated success in building platforms that internal engineers love to use.
• Growth mindset: Both for yourself and for your team. Track record of mentoring, coaching, and promoting talent.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a track record of partnering across engineering and security teams.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling platforms in AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and optimizing cloud cost efficiency.
• Prior experience leading infrastructure or platform org transformations.

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 super 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.

Some of our benefit 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, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s 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)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.
• We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500™
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $213,000 - $368,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity.

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