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

The role

You will build, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI applications, and cloud infrastructure. You will lead technical deployments, manage privileged access, and create automations to reduce friction for teams across the firm.

What you will do

• Take ownership of IT challenges around AI deployments
• Co-own technical implementation of new enterprise systems and AI applications
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual toil and build automations
• Partner with business teams to turn ideas into working applications
• Build and operate AWS and GCP infrastructure
• Partner with Cybersecurity to protect sensitive data and manage privileged access
• Support Databricks and cloud AI services
• Serve as a technical escalation point for various business units
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and decision records

Required qualifications

• 8 years of experience in platform engineering, systems administration, cloud infrastructure, or IT engineering, with responsibility for production systems
• A power user of advanced AI workflows, going beyond such tools as ChatGPT/Codex, Claude Code, 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
• Experience administering modern enterprise infrastructure and SaaS ecosystems such as Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Jamf, Intune, and cloud-native environments
• Experience building maintainable automations and API integrations using code and low-code/no-code platforms, with version control, testing, monitoring, and safe deployment practices
• Ability to diagnose complex problems across enterprise systems, infrastructure, identity, and integrations
• Experience making changes to production systems with adequate testing, monitoring, rollback plans, and responding effectively when things go wrong
• Low ego, high empathy

Benefits

• a16z carry program
• discretionary bonus programs
• health
• dental
• vision
• disability
• life insurance
• 401K plan
• vacation
• sick leave

About the company

Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs building the future through technology. The firm has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.