Senior AI Platform Engineer — Enterprise IT & Cloud (SF/MP)

Andreessen Horowitz; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in Silicon Valley is hiring a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer to build, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI apps, and cloud infrastructure.

You will lead complex deployments, manage privileged access, and reduce friction with reliable automations and self‑service workflows, partnering with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, and Data teams across the firm.

This hands‑on role requires an in‑office presence 3 days a week in San Francisco or Menlo Park.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in platform engineering, systems administration, cloud infrastructure, or IT engineering, with responsibility for production systems.
• Experience deploying AI applications with enterprise systems and data, including SSO, provisioning, integrations, permissions, administrative controls, and staged rollouts.
• Hands‑on AWS and GCP experience, including IAM, networking, application hosting, storage, and logging, plus infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the firm's toughest IT challenges around AI deployments, making consequential technical decisions and building lasting solutions that teams across a16z depend on
• Co‑own the technical implementation of new enterprise systems and emerging AI applications, including evaluating, testing, and deploying new capabilities securely and at scale
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual toil and build automations across the entire IT organization
• Partner with business teams and internal builders to turn ideas into working applications—from early prototypes through deployment, hardening, and ongoing support
• Build and operate AWS and GCP infrastructure
• Partner with Cybersecurity to protect sensitive data and manage privileged access across AI, SaaS, cloud, endpoint, and internal systems
• Work with internal stakeholders to support Databricks and cloud AI services, including workspace configuration, service principals, access controls, and operational monitoring
• Serve as a trusted technical escalation point for cybersecurity, engineering, data, and other business units. Work with stakeholders to untangle complex problems and find a clear path forward
• Participate in incident response and root‑cause analysis to restore service and prevent future issues across the firm’s enterprise systems
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and decision records, and share knowledge to help the IT team operate more effectively

Skills

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Databricks

Okta

Google Workspace

Slack

GitHub

Jamf

Intune

Automation

APIs

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Databricks

Okta

Google Workspace

Slack

GitHub

Jamf

Intune

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in Silicon Valley is hiring a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer to build, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI apps, and cloud infrastructure.

You will lead complex deployments, manage privileged access, and reduce friction with reliable automations and self‑service workflows, partnering with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, and Data teams across the firm.

This hands‑on role requires an in‑office presence 3 days a week in San Francisco or Menlo Park.