Senior Full Stack Engineer (GraphQL Focus)

Senior Full Stack Engineer (GraphQL Focus)

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Senior Full Stack Engineer (GraphQL Focus)

Join to apply for the Senior Full Stack Engineer (GraphQL Focus) role at Amplitude

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,000 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 Spring 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

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 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

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with deep experience in GraphQL development and a strong understanding of API security best practices. You’ll be responsible for designing, building, and securing GraphQL services that power critical features in our platform.

You'll collaborate closely with product, frontend, and backend teams to ensure GraphQL APIs are not only performant and scalable, but also secure by design, incorporating principles such as role-based access control (RBAC), audit logging, input validation, and resolver-level authorization.

You’ll play a key role in evolving our GraphQL infrastructure and setting the standard for secure and maintainable API development across the engineering org.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable GraphQL APIs for core features and services
• Implement security controls within the GraphQL layer, including :
• RBAC or ABAC models enforced at the resolver level
• Query complexity and depth limiting to prevent DoS
• Auditable logging for sensitive GraphQL operations
• Input validation and type safety for all queries / mutations
• Work closely with backend and frontend engineers to ensure GraphQL usage patterns are efficient and secure
• Help define best practices for GraphQL schema design, versioning, and access control
• Identify and remediate security issues in GraphQL endpoints proactively, collaborating with application security engineers when necessary
• Partner with engineering to identify and mitigate risks in architecture, design, and implementation stages
• Identify opportunities to fix systemic gaps, reduce recurring pain points, and avoid reactive “whack-a-mole” cycles
• Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve critical / high-risk security issues as well as respond to security incidents with urgency and clarity
• Stay up to date with emerging threats and defensive patterns in GraphQL security

What We’re Looking For

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 well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some Of Our Benefit Programs Include

Other Fun Facts About Amplitude

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

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 : $161,000 - $266,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission) plus equity.

By applying for this job, you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

Staying Safe - Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud

We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and / or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ amplitude.com email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring to this article . Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,500 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 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.

By applying for this job, you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

Staying Safe - Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud

We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and / or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ amplitude.com email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring to this article . Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

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Full-time

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Engineering and Information Technology

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Software Development

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