Infra Platform Engineer: Internal Tools & Dev Experience

A16z; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 352,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan

Vacation & sick leave

Discretionary bonus programs

Job summary

a16z’s Frontiers team is seeking a Software Engineer to own and evolve our internal developer platform and tooling. You’ll partner with investors and operations to improve developer velocity, writing robust code and building shared libraries, templates, and runbooks that empower colleagues across the firm.

You’ll collaborate with cybersecurity, engineers, and partner teams to improve observability, security, and production reliability while shipping iterative improvements based on user feedback.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python 3, Rust or similar backend languages and willingness to learn new technologies
• Track record of defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling that measurably improved engineering velocity
• Excitement to work 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 (Docker); experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Exposure to CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, CircleCI, or similar)
• Experience working with production SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL); NoSQL experience (e.g., Elasticsearch) is a plus
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) is a plus
• Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid technical fundamentals with a get-it-done mentality
• Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams

Responsibilities

• Own and improve internal developer platform and tooling
• Work with diverse user group to understand use-cases
• Build shared templates and libraries to accelerate development
• Support observability, monitoring, and self-serve production ops
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to ensure security/compliance
• Write developer docs, onboarding guides, runbooks
• Ship improvements with user feedback
• Take ownership from development to production support with increasing autonomy
• Write clear, well-structured, maintainable code
• Foster inclusive collaboration
• Stay curious about new infra tools

Skills

Python

Rust

Backend dev

Developer platform

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL databases

Terraform/Pulumi

Observability

Security & compliance

Team collaboration

Learn new tech

Empathy

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

CloudBuild

Elasticsearch

Job description

a16z’s Frontiers team is seeking a Software Engineer to own and evolve our internal developer platform and tooling. You’ll partner with investors and operations to improve developer velocity, writing robust code and building shared libraries, templates, and runbooks that empower colleagues across the firm.

You’ll collaborate with cybersecurity, engineers, and partner teams to improve observability, security, and production reliability while shipping iterative improvements based on user feedback.