Software Engineer, Software Factory (Partner 16, Partner 18)
Andreessen Horowitz · San Francisco, California, United States · $269k–$352k
The role
This role is within the Applied Software Group (ASG), an internal startup team building software tools for the firm's investing and operations teams. The engineer will own and improve the internal developer platform, build shared tooling, and support observability and security. The position requires in-office presence 2-3 days a week in San Francisco and is open at two levels.
- Pay
- $269k–$352k
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 3+ yrs
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
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- Posted todaythe first time we saw it
About Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 that invests in seed to growth-stage technology companies across various sectors, with over $100B in assets under management.
What you would do
- Contribute to and improve the internal developer platform
- Collaborate with colleagues to understand and support their use cases
- Build and maintain shared tooling, templates, and internal libraries
- Support observability, monitoring, and alerting for self-service
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity to ensure security and compliance
- Write and maintain developer documentation and onboarding guides
Must have
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python 3, Rust, or similar backend languages
- Track record of shipping developer platforms or internal tooling
- Excitement to work with diverse user groups
- Experience deploying services on a major cloud platform
- Experience with containerized services like Docker
- Exposure to CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions or CircleCI
- Experience with production SQL databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Strong problem-solving skills and technical fundamentals
- Low ego, high empathy, and collaborative capacity
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes
- NoSQL experience like Elasticsearch
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code like Terraform or Pulumi
What you get
- Eligible for a16z Carry program
- Discretionary bonus programs
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability and life insurance
- 401K plan
- Vacation and sick leave
Experience and education
- 3+ years of relevant experience
Key skills
- python
- rust
- docker
- kubernetes
- github actions
- cloud build
- circleci
- postgresql
- mysql
- elasticsearch
- terraform
- pulumi
- gcp
- aws
- azure
- ci/cd
- infrastructure as code
- observability
- monitoring
- alerting
- sql
- nosql
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic . We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI…
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