Senior Platform Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco, CA
$183,000–$276,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure engineering role focused on building and evolving the internal developer platform used across the engineering organization. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes cluster management on AWS and GCP, CI/CD pipeline development with GitOps tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and observability. The role also involves designing platform primitives and workflows suited to AI-assisted development, mentoring less experienced engineers, and participating in on-call incident response.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,300–13,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Compensation figures vary by location. The range shown ($183K–$276K) reflects the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City bands; Colorado, non-Bay-Area California, and Washington state bands are $165K–$247K. All figures are 'total target cash' inclusive of bonus or commission.
The JD states 'B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field,' which explicitly accepts equivalent experience in lieu of a degree — degree requirement is therefore not a hard gate.
Golang and Python are listed as 'preferred' languages within the requirements block ('Golang or Python preferred'); they are treated as a single interchangeable must-have with Golang as the primary name and Python as the alternative, since the JD firmly gates on proficiency in at least one of them.
Helm, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Kustomize, Datadog, GCP, Backstage, and Envoy appear in the requirements section under 'Familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem' or as supporting stack context rather than as explicit hard gates — they are marked preferred accordingly.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping platform tooling, IaC, CI/CD systems, and automation code — not operating infrastructure someone else built.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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