Amplitude
Staff Software Engineer - DevX
$198K–$331K
Remote-NAMER · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- Staff-level engineering experience; no number of years specified.
About the job
Set technical direction and build cloud-first developer platforms and AI-enabled workflows that help engineers develop, test, and ship software faster.
What you'll do
- Unify and scale local, remote, and ephemeral development environments across a polyglot codebase.
- Automate engineering workflow bottlenecks, including building sandboxes and tools for AI agents.
- Own developer tooling and platform direction; improve build and CI speed, reduce deployment risk, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- Staff-level engineering experience and impact; strong backend and systems skills.
- Experience moving a team’s development workflow to the cloud.
- Track record of shipping developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved velocity.
- Hands-on experience building agentic or AI-powered engineering workflows with responsible human oversight.
Nice to have
- Monorepo tooling or large-scale platform migrations.
- Agent harness infrastructure, including eval frameworks, orchestration, or sandboxing for LLMs.
Pay
$198,000 - $299,000 USD base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission) (Colorado); $220,000 - $331,000 USD base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission) (New York City); $220,000 - $331,000 USD base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission) (California); $198,000 - $299,000 USD base salary (inclusive of bonus or commission) (Washington state)
Tools
VMs, CI/CD, LLMs
AI focus
Build AI-agent-ready development environments, sandboxes, and tooling for agentic engineering workflows, with human oversight.
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