Senior Software Engineer — Internal Developer Platform

P2P; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 352,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

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’ll own internal developer platform tooling, improve developer experience, and collaborate across invest/operations teams to ship reliable infrastructure.

You will work in a startup-like environment with a strong user feedback loop, and sit in-office 2–3 days per week. Salary bands are provided for Partner 16 and Partner 18 levels.

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.
• 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 (PostgreSQL, MySQL); NoSQL experience (Elasticsearch) is a plus.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
• Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Own, improve and help with the adoption of our internal developer platform and the team's broader product portfolio.
• 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 ensure developer workflows meet security and compliance requirements.
• Write and maintain developer documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks that actually get used.
• Take ownership of assigned projects and services from development through production support with increasing autonomy.
• Write clear, well-structured, and maintainable code and foster inclusive collaboration.

Skills

Python 3

Rust

Developer platform

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL

IaC

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Applied Software Group in San Francisco. You’ll own internal developer platform tooling, improve developer experience, and collaborate across invest/operations teams to ship reliable infrastructure.

You will work in a startup-like environment with a strong user feedback loop, and sit in-office 2–3 days per week. Salary bands are provided for Partner 16 and Partner 18 levels.