Staff Software Engineer – DevX

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer architecting cloud-first developer platforms, software factories, and AI-agent tooling. Amplitude provides AI-powered digital analytics for product, data, and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Unify and scale local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase
  • Enable engineers and AI agents to provision environments, build, test, debug, and validate changes with reproducible test data and clear access controls
  • Identify major engineering workflow bottlenecks and automate them
  • Build sandboxes and tooling that enable AI agents to perform engineering work with human oversight
  • Own build systems, CI/CD, developer environments, and internal tooling
  • Reduce build and CI time, deployment risk, and feedback latency
  • Set architecture and technical direction for the developer platform and software factory
  • Turn ambiguous problems into roadmaps
  • Establish technical standards
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers through design review and pairing
  • Own initiatives end to end from ambiguous problem definition through production

Requirements

  • Staff-level engineering experience and impact
  • Full-stack, infrastructure-leaning skills, strong on the backend and systems side
  • Experience moving a team’s development workflow into the cloud, including VMs, remote environments, preview branches, and sandboxes
  • Track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity
  • Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows, used responsibly with human oversight
  • Strong judgment and clear writing
  • Ability to drive alignment without formal authority
  • Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migration experience preferred
  • Agent harness infrastructure experience, including evaluation frameworks, orchestration, or LLM sandboxing, preferred
  • Must be legally eligible to work for any employer in Canada without sponsorship

Benefits

  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Monthly commuter transit/parking stipend
  • Quarterly learning and development stipend
  • Annual/new-hire home office equipment stipend
  • 12–20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Carrot Fertility Benefits, adoption and surrogacy support
  • Back-up Child Care support
  • Mental health benefits, including no-cost Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions
  • One Medical membership in select U.S. locations
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay, up to $2,000 annually
  • Mentorship programs
  • Management training
  • Wellness initiatives
  • Charitable giving grant
  • Paid volunteer time off
  • Equity, benefits and other forms of compensation

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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