Hybrid Senior AI Platform Engineer — Enterprise Cloud

A16z; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

Vacation and sick leave

Job summary

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is seeking a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI applications, and cloud infrastructure that empower teams firm-wide.

You will lead complex deployments, manage privileged access, and build automations to reduce toil while collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, and Data teams to deliver secure, well-documented solutions. This in-office role requires presence in SF or Menlo Park three days weekly.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering, systems administration, cloud infra, or IT with production systems responsibility.
• Experience with enterprise AI deployments and cloud data services.
• Experience shipping internal tools from prototype to production with authentication and integrations.
• Hands-on AWS/GCP experience including IAM, networking, hosting, storage, logging.
• Strong automation, scripting, and API integration capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex AI deployments and enterprise IT initiatives across multiple teams.
• Implement and secure enterprise systems and cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Develop self-service automations and workflows to reduce manual toil.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data, and Product to deliver secure, well-documented solutions.
• Maintain clear runbooks, documentation, and incident response practices.

Skills

AI platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform / IaC

Databricks administration

Security and IAM

Automation & integration

Incident response

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Okta

Databricks

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is seeking a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI applications, and cloud infrastructure that empower teams firm-wide.

You will lead complex deployments, manage privileged access, and build automations to reduce toil while collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, and Data teams to deliver secure, well-documented solutions. This in-office role requires presence in SF or Menlo Park three days weekly.