Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform New San Francisco, CA

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.

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 :
• 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

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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. Salary details for San Francisco Bay Area are provided in the job posting, as applicable.

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

If you are currently not able to come into our SF office 2x a week, are you willing to relocate?

Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the U.S.?

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To help hold ourselves accountable to our diversity and inclusion objectives, and for government reporting purposes, please take a few moments to complete the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

Why is Amplitude collecting demographic data? What is Amplitude trying to achieve by collecting this data?

Collecting demographic data is part of our commitment to inclusivity and fairness in the hiring process. Amplitude has made a commitment that all candidates experience a fair and equitable hiring process. As a data-driven company, we believe you can’t improve something if you can’t measure it. We are implementing methods to measure fairness in the Amplitude hiring process, and we need demographic data from applicants to achieve these goals.

As set forth in Amplitude's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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