Senior Software Engineer, SDK San Francisco, CA

Overview

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,300 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Square, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Summer 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business atamplitude.com .

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

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.

The SDK team at Amplitude builds the next generation of SDKs that power how customers collect data, understand user behavior, and take real-time action. Our libraries help capture session replays, automatically detect performance issues, error signals, and frustration indicators, and enable key product actions like experimentation, in-app guides, and surveys.

We are responsible for core Analytics and Session Replay SDKs and the frameworks that product teams build on top of. Our team defines development standards, owns the technical architecture, and unblocks teams across Amplitude with deep platform expertise.

We\'re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our SDK team. In this role, you\'ll have full ownership over Amplitude’s open source React Native SDKs and contribute to other cross-platform libraries like Flutter. Our SDKs are used by thousands of developers to send hundreds of billions of events to Amplitude every month. If you care about building developer tools that are elegant, robust, and deeply useful — this is the role for you.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will :

• Lead React Native SDK Development : Design, build, and maintain our React Native SDKs with a focus on performance, scalability, and developer usability.
• Contribute Across Platforms : Support development of Flutter and potentially other mobile SDKs to maintain a consistent experience across ecosystems.
• Drive Developer Experience : Own the usability of our SDKs by designing intuitive APIs, writing clean and thorough documentation, and supporting integration flows.
• Build UI Components : Use React to build frontend components and tools that showcase SDK features or help developers test / debug integrations.
• Support SDK Integration : Partner with customers and internal teams to troubleshoot issues and guide successful integration of our SDKs.
• Automate Release Pipelines : Enhance CI / CD systems for publishing to npm and other package managers with a smooth, reliable release process.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally : Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across Amplitude to deliver impactful SDK features.
• Champion Engineering Excellence : Lead design discussions, contribute to architecture reviews, and mentor teammates on SDK best practices.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have :

At a minimum, you need to have :

Following will be a plus :

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 :

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 : $170,000 - $256,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range : $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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