Head of Engineering, Foundations

AngelList•New York City, NY

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

AngelList is seeking a Head of Engineering, Foundations to lead the team responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers over $200B in assets and $90B in money movement. This role has company-level scope and reports directly to the CEO. The team will tackle novel challenges related to agents as first-class users of the system, including aspects like sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback for systems handling real money. The ideal candidate is a builder who leads, writes clean code, has designed and shipped systems end-to-end, and wants to continue doing so while growing a team. They should have experience developing senior engineers and possess strong systems judgment, with a focus on developer experience as a product. The role involves setting engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence, ensuring teams can ship quickly and sustainably.

Requirements

12+ years in engineering, including 5+ leading teams.
A builder who leads. You write clean, well-tested code and have designed and shipped systems end to end, and you want to keep doing that while growing a team.
Leverage through senior engineers. You've developed staff and principal ICs who make other teams better.
Systems judgment. You've operated consequential infrastructure before. Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code experience helps, but judgment matters more than familiarity with our exact stack.
Developer experience as a product. You design infrastructure for the engineers using it rather than just operating it.
You author the standard. You have a clear point of view on what good infrastructure looks like and set it rather than inheriting it.

Nice To Haves

If you don’t meet every requirement above, we still encourage you to apply. We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

Responsibilities

Hire, coach, and grow a small team of high-performing engineers, and develop the staff and principal engineers who carry technical standards into other teams.
Build the platform the whole engineering org runs on: developer platforms, deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling.
Automate infrastructure as code on Kubernetes and AWS, using Pulumi, cdk8s, and ArgoCD.
Build the harnesses agents execute inside, including sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback against systems that move real money.
Set the engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence, and sequence the quality work that keeps teams shipping quickly over time.