Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform San Francisco, CA

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—to build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2, Amplitude is the best‑in‑class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

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.

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.
• 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 :

What We’re Looking For

Nice to Have

Benefits

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

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.

Recruitment Safety

We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and / or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @amplitude.com email address. Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office with the expectation of coming in 2 days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Availability to come into the office is required.

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