Software Engineer, Systems (Partner 16, Partner 18)

Andreessen Horowitz•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Software Engineer, Systems will join Frontiers, a team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for Andreessen Horowitz’s investing and operations teams. The role focuses on optimizing developer experience by owning, improving, and helping drive adoption of the firm’s internal developer platform and broader product portfolio. The engineer will build and maintain the infrastructure and tooling used by the team and its partners. Frontiers operates like an internal startup, maintaining a close feedback loop with users and addressing requests from across the firm. The role’s users are colleagues with varied technical backgrounds. The engineer will identify their pain points, reduce friction in daily workflows, and build platforms and tools that help teams develop more quickly and confidently. The role involves close collaboration with fellow engineers and teams across the firm, including Cybersecurity, and requires an in-office presence two to three days per week in San Francisco, California. The position is open at the Software Engineer (Partner 16) and Senior Software Engineer (Partner 18) levels.

Requirements

At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Python 3, Rust, or similar backend languages, and willingness to learn new technologies.
A track record of defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling that measurably improved engineering velocity.
Enthusiasm for working directly with a diverse user group with varying technical backgrounds.
Experience deploying services on at least one major cloud platform: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Experience with containerized services such as Docker.
Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, CircleCI, or similar.
Experience working with production SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Experience in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence.
Strong problem-solving skills, solid technical fundamentals, and a get-it-done mentality.
Low ego, high empathy, and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes.
NoSQL experience, such as Elasticsearch.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts, such as Terraform or Pulumi.

Responsibilities

Contribute to and improve the developer platform and its diverse set of applications.
Work with colleagues to understand, review, and assist with their varied project use cases.
Build and maintain shared tooling, templates, and internal libraries that accelerate development across the firm’s products.
Support observability, monitoring, and alerting so engineers can self-serve when production systems break.
Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to help ensure developer workflows meet security and compliance requirements.
Write and maintain developer documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks.
Ship improvements iteratively and incorporate user feedback to improve the developer experience.
Own assigned projects and services from development through production support, taking on increasing autonomy over time.
Write clear, well-structured, maintainable code.
Foster inclusive collaboration and bring positive energy to team interactions.
Stay curious about tools, technologies, and approaches relevant to infrastructure and developer productivity.
Learn the inner workings of venture capital and work closely with the investing partnership.