Head of Engineering, Foundations

AngelList•San Francisco, CA

2d•$280,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AngelList is seeking a Head of Engineering, Foundations to lead the team responsible for the 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 decisions on sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback for systems handling real money. The Head of Engineering is expected to be a hands-on builder who also directs and mentors a team.

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.

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.