Backend Engineer, Data Platforms — Hybrid SF

Andreessen Horowitz; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 290,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Disability and life insurance

401(k) plan

Vacation and sick leave

SF office

Job summary

Andreessen Horowitz in San Francisco seeks a backend engineer to build secure, scalable data-backed internal tools for the firm's investing and operations teams. You’ll own services that acquire and normalize alternative data sources and ship robust backend systems.

You will work in the Applied Software Group, an internal startup with a close feedback loop, offering ownership, frequent shipping, and growth through collaboration with senior engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python 3 (or another backend language) and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Experience deploying production services on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Experience working with production SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch).
• Experience building and deploying containerized services; familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services that support internal data products and applications.
• Work closely with investing and operations teams to understand workflows and translate requirements into reliable software solutions.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new features and systems, with guidance from more experienced engineers as needed.
• Ship new data products iteratively, incorporating user feedback to continuously improve functionality and performance.
• Take ownership of assigned services or projects, from development through production support.

Skills

Python 3

Backend engineering

Cloud deployments

SQL/NoSQL

Containerization/Kubernetes

Data normalization

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz in San Francisco seeks a backend engineer to build secure, scalable data-backed internal tools for the firm's investing and operations teams. You’ll own services that acquire and normalize alternative data sources and ship robust backend systems.

You will work in the Applied Software Group, an internal startup with a close feedback loop, offering ownership, frequent shipping, and growth through collaboration with senior engineers.