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Senior Software Engineer - SDK

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Posted 8 May 2026
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<div class="content-intro"><p>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. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at <a href="http://amplitude.com&quot;&gt;amplitude.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity &amp; Inclusion (DEI): </strong>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.</p></div><h3><strong>About the role and Team</strong></h3> <p>At Amplitude, millions of developers instrument their products to understand how users behave.&nbsp;The first code they write with Amplitude is almost always through an SDK.&nbsp;That means our SDKs are <strong>not just integrations, they are the developer experience of Amplitude itself. </strong>We're building a new kind of SDK team:</p> <p>Most companies hire SDK engineers per language.</p> <p>We don't.</p> <p>We're recruiting <strong>AI-assisted SDK wizards</strong>, engineers who:</p> <ul> <li>learn new languages quickly</li> <li>use AI to accelerate development</li> <li>build tooling to scale SDK maintenance</li> <li>own developer experience end-to-end</li> </ul> <p>This role has unusually <strong>large scope and autonomy</strong></p> <p><strong>What You'll Work On</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain SDKs across many languages (e.g. TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, Swift, Rust)</li> <li>Use AI to scale SDK development - build systems that allow a small team to maintain many SDKs</li> <li>Own developer experience - improve how developers integrate with Amplitude</li> <li>Optimize SDK for latency, performance, bundle size, resource load</li> <li>Create external-facing agents that take advantage of the signals collected by our SDKs</li> <li>Build integrations with third parties</li> <li>Drive high engineering standards while knowing when speed beats perfection.</li> <li>Create a culture where people love the work, move fast, and deliver real outcomes.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>You Might Be a Great Fit If:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience building SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms.</li> <li>Open source library maintainership</li> <li>Experience across multiple language ecosystems</li> <li>Interest in developer experience and tooling</li> <li>Experience building platform tooling or code generation systems</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Why This Team, Why Now?</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Huge scope</strong> - own SDKs used by thousands of developers<br><br></li> <li><strong>Polyglot engineering</strong> - work across many ecosystems<br><br></li> <li><strong>AI-augmented engineering</strong> - help define the future of SDK development<br><br></li> <li><strong>Direct product impact</strong> - great SDKs drive adoption of Amplitude</li> </ul> <h2>Our values:</h2> <p>At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Humility: </strong>We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.</li> <li><strong>Ownership: </strong>We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.</li> <li><strong>Growth Mindset: </strong>We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.</li> <li><strong>Customer Centricity:</strong> We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are de

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