Software Engineer, Systems (Partner 16, Partner 18)

You will join the Applied Software Group (ASG), a team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for the firm's investing and operations teams. As a software engineer optimizing developer experience, you will own, improve and help with the adoption of our internal developer platform as well as the team's wider product portfolio. You will work on and own the infrastructure and tooling that the team and its partners are building with.

The Applied Software Group operates in the mode of an internal startup. We own a tight feedback loop with our users and take on requests from all corners of the firm. In this role, your users are your fellow colleagues — you'll understand their pain points, eliminate friction from their daily workflows, and build the platform and tools that lets everyone build more, faster, and with confidence. While doing so, you will closely work together with your fellow engineers and other teams throughout the firm.

This role requires an in-office presence 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco, CA office.

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

We do only first class business and only in a first class way

We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business

We believe in the future and bet the firm that way

We are all different, we recognize that, and we win

We celebrate the good times

We do it for the team

We play to win

At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.

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