Product Engineer II (Activation) at Amplitude

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—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 & Team

The Activation team at Amplitude is building a leading insights-driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost-effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.

We are responsible for building features to help customers find the right audience to target, visualize their customer journey to plan interventions and build scalable real-time and batch data pipelines along with an ecosystem of integrations that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform supports over 100+ integrations and processes over 800 petabytes of data per month and it's growing rapidly.

We're looking for a Product Engineer who isn’t afraid to take on the challenges of building and evolving a highly-sophisticated, data-intensive enterprise product. As one of the core members of the engineering team, you will be responsible for building innovative interfaces and cross-cutting architectural improvements for our Activation Platform, enabling self-serving data connections, simplifying customer insights generation, and ensuring a seamlessly integrated user experience with other Amplitude products..

As a Product Engineer, you will:

Lead features, from ideation and implementation, through to launch.

Develop new features for data connection management and customer insights discovery using TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Tailwind CSS.

Develop APIs and business logic in Python/Java to support product functionality.

Integrate with backend services and improve our API infrastructure built with Python, Java, Node, GraphQL and Postgres.

Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams to iterate on our product.

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

Passion for driving customer value, you think about how your work delivers value to customers.

Interest in customer interaction, iterating with customers to develop novel innovative products.

Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality, maintainable code

Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, algorithms, and system design

Enthusiasm for working across frontend and backend technologies to take full ownership of the problem.

Pride yourself in your excellent attention to detail and your design and UX sensibilities.

At a minimum, you need to have:

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field.

2+ years of experience working as a Product Engineer, or a full-stack engineer with a front-end focus.

Previous experience with one or more JavaScript application frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone, etc.)

Previous experience with backend development in Python/Java is 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: At Amplitude, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your physical, emotional, and financial well-being. We believe that our employees should have access to high-quality healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits that allow them to focus on their work and their personal lives.

Our benefits package includes:

Competitive medical, dental, and vision programs

Paid family bonding time off and family forming benefits

Annual leave plus holidays

Fully paid disability and life insurance programs

Wellness and Learning and Development allowances and more…

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

We are committed to creating a globally consistent and locally sensitive benefits plan that meets the needs of our employees around the world, regardless of where they live. We believe that our benefits are an important part of our employee value proposition and that they help us to attract and retain top talent. We encourage you to learn more about our benefits package and to see how we can support your well-being.

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Product Engineer II (Activation)

Job Description

About The Role & Team

Who We Are