# Partner 34, Lead Engineer, Incident Response at Andreessen Horowitz

- Company: Andreessen Horowitz
- What the company does: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
- Company website: https://a16z.com/
- Type: VC firms
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $295K to $347K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://a16z.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=8008685003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/andreessen-horowitz-partner-34-lead-engineer-incident-response/

## About the role

We're hiring a Lead Engineer, Incident Response to lead and shape a16z's detection and response team. This is a hands-on role: you'll spend a significant portion of your time investigating incidents, writing and reviewing detections, building automation, and making the harder technical response decisions. You'll also manage and develop the engineers on the team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 9+ years of incident response or detection and response experience, or equivalent demonstrated impact, with depth in cloud incident response across AWS and GCP
- Prior experience managing security engineers, including coaching and performance management, while remaining technically hands-on
- A track record of building and leading detection and response programs, making architecture and prioritization decisions, and delivering measurable improvements
- Experience leading high-stakes incidents across cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoint environments, including forensic investigation, containment, recovery, and postmortems
- Strong detection engineering skills, including SIEM query languages or rule formats such as KQL or Sigma, detection-as-code, testing, and tuning
- Experience running hypothesis-driven threat hunts and investigating sophisticated attacks, including identity compromise, social engineering, and data exfiltration

Tags: Cybersecurity

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