Job Description

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 3,800 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Jersey Mike’s, 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. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2024 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

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.

Senior Security Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure Security and Detection & Response)

About the Role:

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll lead security initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering, bringing a DevSecOps mindset to building automation and secure, scalable systems. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams and work across a wide range of domains including cloud security, container security, application security, and developer tooling. This is a role for someone who enjoys context-switching across a range of initiatives and isn't afraid to get into the weeds to unblock teams or ship secure solutions quickly. You’ll also participate in a shared on-call rotation to respond to high-risk security issues and incidents in order to help the business minimize exposure.

Success in this role means driving meaningful improvements in our security posture without slowing down development. You’ll reduce time-to-remediate, build automated guardrails, and proactively identify risks before they become incidents. You'll be a trusted partner to engineering, delivering high-velocity solutions that balance security and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Harden AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation, policy-as-code, and guardrails.
• Own and evolve our DevSecOps strategy across infrastructure and application pipelines.
• Drive end-to-end secure development practices: integrate security into CI/CD, build pre-commit hooks, and improve developer productivity without slowing down development.