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Engineering Manager, Data Connections
Engineering Manager
• On-site
• Full-time
•
San Francisco, USA
Amplitude's Data Connections team owns how data gets in and out of the platform — importing behavioral and customer data from cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and object storage (S3, Azure Blob Storage), and exporting enriched event data to warehouses, streaming destinations, and marketing platforms. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of around 10 engineers, accountable for the roadmap, reliability, and growth of the team.
Responsibilities
- ▹Set the direction and roadmap for data import and export, with clear priorities and tradeoffs
- ▹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
- ▹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
- ▹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 production systems
- ▹Clear communication with engineers and non-engineers, 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
Leading, coaching, and developing a teamPartnering with Product, Design, and other teamsClear communication, especially when things go wrongAvoiding bottlenecks by empowering tech leads to make decisions
What we offer
- ▹Excellent medical, dental and vision insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees
- ▹401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- ▹Flexible time off and paid holidays
- ▹Generous stipends for wellness, commuter/parking, learning and development, and home office equipment
- ▹Excellent parental benefits: 12 weeks paid parental leave, fertility/adoption/surrogacy support, back-up child care
- ▹Mental health and wellness benefits including coaching and therapy
- ▹Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
About the company
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. Amplitude was ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2's Winter 2026 Report.
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