Software Engineer, Systems (Partner 16, Partner 18)

a16z•San Francisco, CA

17d•$269,000 - $352,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Frontiers, a team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for Andreessen Horowitz’s investing and operations teams. In this developer-experience-focused role, you will own and improve the firm’s internal developer platform, support its adoption, and work on infrastructure and tooling used by the team and its partners. You will also contribute to the team’s broader product portfolio. Frontiers operates like an internal startup, maintaining a close feedback loop with colleagues across the firm. You will understand users’ pain points, reduce friction in their daily workflows, and build platforms and tools that help colleagues build more quickly and confidently. You will work closely with fellow engineers and other teams throughout the firm, including Cybersecurity, and learn about venture capital while working with the investing partnership. The role requires working in the San Francisco office 2–3 days per week.

Requirements

At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Python 3, Rust, or a similar backend language, and willingness to learn new technologies.
A track record of defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling that measurably improved engineering velocity.
Excitement about 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 using Docker.
Exposure to CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or CircleCI.
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 support for a 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 issues occur.
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 iterative improvements and incorporate user feedback to improve the developer experience.
Take ownership of assigned projects and services from development through production support, with increasing autonomy over time.
Write clear, well-structured, maintainable code.
Foster positive, inclusive collaboration in interactions with the team.
Stay curious about tools, technologies, and approaches relevant to infrastructure and developer productivity.