Partner 20, Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer, San Francisco/Menlo Park

As a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer at a16z crypto, you build, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI applications, and cloud infrastructure that help teams across the firm execute with speed, confidence, and security. You lead complex technical deployments, serve as a trusted technical escalation point for stakeholders, manage privileged access across critical systems, and reduce friction through reliable automations and self-service workflows. This hands-on role sits within the IT Systems team, working closely with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, Data, and other business units. The position requires in-office presence 3 days a week in either San Francisco or Menlo Park.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of the firm's toughest IT challenges around AI deployments, making consequential technical decisions and building lasting solutions that teams across a16z depend on
• Co-own the technical implementation of new enterprise systems and emerging AI applications, including evaluating, testing, and deploying new capabilities securely and at scale
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual toil and build automations across the entire IT organization
• Partner with business teams and internal builders to turn ideas into working applications from early prototypes through deployment, hardening, and ongoing support
• Build and operate AWS and GCP infrastructure
• Partner with Cybersecurity to protect sensitive data and manage privileged access across AI, SaaS, cloud, endpoint, and internal systems
• Support Databricks and cloud AI services, including workspace configuration, service principals, access controls, and operational monitoring
• Serve as a trusted technical escalation point for cybersecurity, engineering, data, and other business units, untangling complex problems and finding clear paths forward
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis to restore service and prevent future issues across the firm's enterprise systems
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and decision records, and share knowledge to help the IT team operate more effectively

What you bring

• 8 years of experience in platform engineering, systems administration, cloud infrastructure, or IT engineering, with responsibility for production systems
• Advanced proficiency with AI workflows beyond standard tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, and Wispr Flow
• Experience transforming IT operations by leveraging AI
• Experience deploying AI applications with enterprise systems and data, including SSO, provisioning, integrations, permissions, administrative controls, and staged rollouts
• Experience shipping internal applications or tools from prototype to production, including authentication, API integrations, deployment, and ongoing support
• Hands-on AWS and GCP experience, including IAM, networking, application hosting, storage, and logging, plus infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Experience administering or supporting Databricks, including workspaces, service principals, permissions, and monitoring, in partnership with data engineering teams
• Experience administering modern enterprise infrastructure and SaaS ecosystems such as Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Jamf, Intune, and cloud-native environments
• Ability to build maintainable automations and API integrations using code and low-code or no-code platforms, with version control, testing, monitoring, and safe deployment practices
• Ability to diagnose complex problems across enterprise systems, infrastructure, identity, and integrations, and weigh security, reliability, cost, and user experience when choosing solutions
• Experience making changes to production systems with adequate testing, monitoring, rollback plans, and responding effectively when things go wrong
• Low ego and high empathy: you listen to different perspectives, question your assumptions, and use evidence to find the best solutions
• High agency: you take initiative, manage priorities, navigate ambiguity, collaborate effectively, and proactively communicate progress, risks, and blockers

What we offer

• Salary of $221,000 to $258,000, with actual starting pay varying based on experience, skills, and scope
• Eligibility for the a16z carry program and various discretionary bonus programs
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage
• 401K plan, vacation, and sick leave
• In-office presence required 3 days per week in San Francisco or Menlo Park

About a16z crypto

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. a16z has $100B+ under management and invests stage-agnostically across AI, bio and healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and American dynamism. The firm has invested in companies including Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe.