Staff Software Engineer - SDK iOS
Amplitude
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Practise the Staff Software Engineer - SDK iOS at Amplitude interview free →Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—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 in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, 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, iOS 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 iOS SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, and serve as the iOS platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Statsig, Guides, and Surveys rely on.
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the iOS 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 iOS SDK platform.
- Own and drive development of core iOS SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and ease of use.
- Act as the iOS 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 iOS 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.
- Expertise in iOS 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 iOS development.
- Deep expertise in iOS platform internals and best practices.
- Strong proficiency in Swift and Objective-C, with experience using modern iOS APIs, frameworks, and development tools.
- Experience designing public APIs with a strong focus on stability and backward compatibility.
- Experience debugging complex issues across a wide range of mobile devices and OS versions.
- Familiarity with performance profiling, memory management, and concurrency on iOS.
| 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: $198,000 - $299,000 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: $220,000 - $331,000 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: $220,000 - $331,000 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: $198,000 - $299,000 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: $198,000 - $299,000 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. |
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