Internal Platform Engineer — Developer Experience Leader

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 352,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

Vacation & sick leave

Job summary

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Applied Software Group in San Francisco. You will own and improve our internal developer platform and tooling, collaborating with engineers across the firm to accelerate product development and reduce friction.

As an internal startup, you will ship incremental improvements, write clear code, and contribute to observability, security, and across-team documentation. This role requires in-office presence 2-3 days/week in SF.

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); Kubernetes is a plus.
• Exposure to CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, CircleCI, or similar).
• Experience 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

• Contribute to and help improve the our developer platform, associated with a diverse set of applications
• Continuously work with your fellow colleagues to understand, review and assist their diverse use-cases for projects
• 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 things break in production
• Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to help ensure developer workflows meet security and compliance requirements
• Write and maintain developer documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks that actually get used
• Ship improvements iteratively, incorporating feedback from your users to continuously 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, and maintainable code
• Bring positive energy in every interaction with the team and foster inclusive collaboration
• Stay curious about new tools, technologies, and approaches relevant to infrastructure and developer productivity
• Learn the inner workings of VC and work closely with the investing partnership

Skills

Python

Rust

Developer platforms

Cloud experience

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL databases

NoSQL

Terraform

Pulumi

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Applied Software Group in San Francisco. You will own and improve our internal developer platform and tooling, collaborating with engineers across the firm to accelerate product development and reduce friction.

As an internal startup, you will ship incremental improvements, write clear code, and contribute to observability, security, and across-team documentation. This role requires in-office presence 2-3 days/week in SF.