Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Key Skills

Apache Airflow, AWS, Azure, Confluence, Data Analytics, Data Architecture, Data Biuld Tool - dbt, Data Modeling, Data pipelines, Data science techniques, Data Warehousing, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), JIRA, Metadata, Planning and organization, Post silicon validation, Python Programming, Snowflake, SQL

Job Description

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Almost 2,000 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude also 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.

About The Role & Team

We’re looking for a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to join the Enterprise Data and Insight team within Amplitude. You will be part of a team who is building Amplitude’s Data infrastructure from the ground up with all cloud technology stack. As a hands-on manager, this is a great opportunity to build world class data and analytics infrastructure to enable data democratization and data driven decision making.

As a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering you will: 

• Design, build and maintain Data and Analytics infrastructure that is highly scalable 
• Design and build data architecture and data models to enable Single Source Of Truth
• Design and build data pipelines using Fivetran, dbt Snowflake and Airflow including end to end observability 
• Develop and maintain data documentation including ERD, data dictionaries, data lineage, and metadata
• Ensure data quality and integrity by implementing appropriate data validation and cleansing techniques
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, and data science teams to understand their data needs and design efficient solutions to support their requirements

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems or similar, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience; 3+ years of data architecture and modeling experience
• 3 years of experience as a manager, hiring and mentoring data engineers
• Experience with modern data integration and transformation tools such as Fivetran, Dbt, and Matillion
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Strong understanding of MPP databases like Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP
• Experience working with tools like Jira and Confluence
• Experience with SQL and Python
• Good knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts such as facts and dimensions to design and develop data models that support enterprise reporting and analytics needs
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as in a team environment

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 wellbeing of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), learning and development (annual), commuter transit/parking (monthly), 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)​