# Software Engineer, Platform (Partner 16, Partner 18) 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: $269K to $314K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://a16z.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=7990665003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/andreessen-horowitz-software-engineer-platform-partner-16-partner-18/

## About the role

You will join Frontiers, 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: a16z Software Group