Senior Software Engineer - SDK
Amplitude · San Francisco, CA · Posted Jul 7, 2026
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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—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 in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, 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 and Team
At Amplitude, millions of developers instrument their products to understand how users behave. The first code they write with Amplitude is almost always through an SDK. That means our SDKs are not just integrations, they are the developer experience of Amplitude itself. We're building a new kind of SDK team:
Most companies hire SDK engineers per language.
We don't.
We're recruiting AI-assisted SDK wizards , engineers who:
learn new languages quickly
use AI to accelerate development
build tooling to scale SDK maintenance
own developer experience end-to-end
This role has unusually large scope and autonomy
What You'll Work On
Build and maintain SDKs across many languages (e.g. TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, Swift, Rust)
Use AI to scale SDK development - build systems that allow a small team to maintain many SDKs
Own developer experience - improve how developers integrate with Amplitude
Optimize SDK for latency, performance, bundle size, resource load
Create external-facing agents that take advantage of the signals collected by our SDKs
Build integrations with third parties
Drive high engineering standards while knowing when speed beats perfection.
Create a culture where people love the work, move fast, and deliver real outcomes.
You Might Be a Great Fit If:
Experience building SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
Open source library maintainership
Experience across multiple language ecosystems
Interest in developer experience and tooling
Experience building platform tooling or code generation systems
Why This Team, Why Now?
Huge scope - own SDKs used by thousands of developers
Polyglot engineering - work across many ecosystems
AI-augmented engineering - help define the future of SDK development
Direct product impact - great SDKs drive adoption of Amplitude
Our values:
At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.
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
401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
Flexible time off, paid 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), new hire home office equipment, and much more
Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 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
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management trainin…