DevX / Developer Operations (Partner 16, Partner 18), ASG

About the role

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, bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds. We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

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

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

• Minimum of 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); 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
• 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

Skills

• Python 3, Rust or similar backend languages
• Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Containerized services (Docker)
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, CircleCI, or similar)
• Production SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch)
• Infrastructure-as-code concepts (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance
• 401K plan
• Vacation, and sick leave

Pay

• Partner 16: $269,000 - $314,000
• Partner 18: $301,000 - $352,000

Schedule

• In-office presence 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco, CA office