Staff Software Engineer - Android DX
$190k - $286kAmplitude
Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—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 by G2, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com .
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.
Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): 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.
The Developer Experience (DX) team at Amplitude builds and maintains the foundations that power how developers integrate, extend, and trust Amplitude across platforms. Our mission is to make Amplitude’s SDKs reliable, easy to adopt, and a joy to build on, so customers can confidently instrument their products and unlock insights at scale.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Android to play a key technical leadership role on our DevEx team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of Amplitude’s core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, and serve as the Android platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Experiment, Guides, and Surveys rely on.
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the Android platform, driving cross-SDK architecture, improving performance and reliability, and raising the bar for developer experience across Amplitude’s mobile ecosystem.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Lead the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Amplitude’s Android SDK platform.
- Own and drive development of core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and ease of use.
- Act as the Android platform expert and trusted partner for other SDK teams (Experiment, Guides, Surveys), enabling them to build on shared foundations safely and efficiently.
- Design and evolve shared infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions that scale across multiple Android SDKs.
- Collaborate closely with Product, and Customer Support to ensure SDKs meet real customer needs.
- Lead cross-team technical discussions, reviews, and architectural decisions that span multiple SDKs.
- Improve developer experience through better APIs, documentation, tooling, testing strategies, and sample apps.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall quality and effectiveness of the team.
You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:
- A strong focus on developer experience and empathy for the engineers who use your work.
- Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices.
- A track record of technical leadership where others look to you for guidance and decision-making.
- Strong judgment in making tradeoffs between API design, performance, backward compatibility, and speed of delivery.
- Comfort working across team boundaries and influencing without direct authority.
- A high bar for code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability.
- The ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
At a minimum, you need to have:
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on Android development.
- Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java, and experience with modern Android APIs and tooling.
- Experience designing public APIs with a strong focus on stability and backward compatibility.
- Experience debugging complex issues across a wide range of Android devices and OS versions.
- Familiarity with performance profiling, memory management, and concurrency on Android.
Who We Are
The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- 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, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
- We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024 .
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $212,000 - $319,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan."
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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