Head of Engineering, Foundations

The role

Lead the engineering team that owns AngelList's core infrastructure, reporting directly to the CEO. You will hire and grow engineers, build the platform and deployment tooling, and design how AI agents safely use systems that move real money.

What you will do

• Hire, coach and grow a small team of high-performing engineers.
• Develop staff and principal engineers who carry technical standards into other teams.
• Build the platform the engineering org runs on: developer platforms, deployment pipelines, observability and developer tooling.
• Automate infrastructure as code on Kubernetes and AWS using Pulumi, cdk8s and ArgoCD.
• Build the harnesses agents run inside, including sandboxing, audit trails and rollback against systems that move real money.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, operability and architectural coherence.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in engineering, including 5+ years leading teams.
• A builder who writes clean, well-tested code and has designed and shipped systems end to end.
• Experience developing staff and principal engineers.
• Experience operating consequential infrastructure.
• Developer experience as a product mindset.
• A clear point of view on good infrastructure and the ability to set the standard.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, AWS and infrastructure-as-code experience.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, benefits and equity package.
• Benefits that support life in and outside of work.

Before you apply

• The posting says candidates who do not meet every requirement are still encouraged to apply.
• Full Total Rewards details are provided during the recruitment process.

About the company

AngelList builds infrastructure for private markets, including fund software, a banking network, a wealth platform for accredited investors and a registered venture fund. The company has over $200B in assets and about 200 employees.