Software Engineer, Platform (Partner 16, Partner 18)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; in-office presence required 2–3 days per week

Salary: $269,000–$314,000 for Software Engineer (Partner 16); $301,000–$352,000 for Senior Software Engineer (Partner 18), annually

Company

hirify.global (a16z) is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies across areas including AI, bio and healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, and games.

What you will do

• Improve and support the internal developer platform and its applications.
• Build and maintain shared tooling, templates, and internal libraries that accelerate product development.
• Support observability, monitoring, alerting, and production self-service workflows.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to align developer workflows with security and compliance requirements.
• Create developer documentation, onboarding guides, and operational runbooks.
• Own services and projects from development through production support while incorporating user feedback.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, or similar backend languages.
• Experience defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling.
• Experience deploying services on GCP, AWS, or Azure and working with Docker.
• Exposure to CI/CD systems and production SQL databases.
• Strong problem-solving, technical, collaboration, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch, or infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan, vacation, and sick leave.
• Eligibility for the a16z Carry program and discretionary bonus programs.
• Collaborative, inclusive environment focused on high-quality work, operational excellence, and continuous learning.