Engineering Manager, Data Connections

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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

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.