Engineering Manager, Data Connections

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Responsibilities

• ▹Set the direction and roadmap for data import and export, with clear priorities and tradeoffs explainable to engineers, PMs and customers
• ▹Lead, coach and grow a team of around 10 engineers — hiring, career development, feedback and performance
• ▹Partner with tech leads on architecture across ingestion, transformation and delivery without becoming the bottleneck for every decision
• ▹Own reliability, SLOs and cost efficiency for pipelines customers depend on daily
• ▹Expand the set of destinations and sources supported, making each new integration cheaper to build than the last
• ▹Work directly with Product, Design and other Data Platform teams to ship end-to-end
• ▹Get involved personally in significant customer onboardings and escalations

Requirements

• ▹2+ years leading engineers, as a manager or as a tech lead
• ▹6+ years building backend, data or infrastructure systems
• ▹Experience with data integration or pipeline work — ETL/ELT, data warehouses, streaming or batch processing at scale
• ▹Comfortable with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Kafka, S3 or equivalent object storage, Terraform)
• ▹A track record of improving reliability, latency or cost for systems in production
• ▹Clear communication with engineers and non-engineers alike, especially when something has gone wrong

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or similar warehouses — as a builder or a heavy user
• ▹Experience with durable workflow engines such as Temporal
• ▹Experience with advertising or marketing platform integrations

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Excellent medical, dental and vision insurance, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee coverage on select plans
• ▹401(k) retirement plan with employer match up to 1% of eligible pay (up to $2,000 annually)
• ▹Flexible time off and paid holidays
• ▹Generous stipends for wellness, commuter/parking, learning and development, and new hire home office equipment
• ▹12 weeks of paid parental leave, Carrot Fertility/adoption/surrogacy support, back-up child care support
• ▹Mental health and wellness benefits including no-cost access to Modern Health coaching and therapy
• ▹Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• ▹Charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off

About the company

Amplitude is a product analytics platform, recognized as the #1 product analytics solution for 23 consecutive quarters on G2. Founded in 2012, it went public via direct listing in September 2021 (ticker $AMPL) and has a global team with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo.