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\Join Andreessen Horowitz as an IT Engineer in San Francisco.
\Architect and secure systems for a leading venture capital firm.
\ \ \Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic . We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI , bio + healthcare , consumer , crypto , enterprise , fintech , games , and companies building toward American dynamism . a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.
\We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
\ \ \The Role
\As an IT Engineer, you will architect, build, and operate the systems, infrastructure, and platforms that power the firm. Based in our San Francisco or Menlo Park office, you will serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues, spending the majority of your time on engineering initiatives, infrastructure projects, and security programs that strengthen the firm's technology foundation.
\ \ \To join our team, you should be excited to:
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- Design, implement, maintain, and secure all IT systems and the entire SaaS software stack in our environment \
- Lead IT projects, coordinating cross-functional and distributed teams and ensuring timely and successful delivery \
- Uphold, enforce and improve the firm's IT security posture through diligent and rigorous planning and execution of all IT activities \
- Build and scale IT automations using workflow builder tools, scripting, and APIs — proactively eliminating manual toil and improving operational leverage across the firm \
- Architect and evolve the firm's endpoint management, identity, and access control platforms (e.g. Jamf/Kandji, Okta, Intune) \
- Manage vendor relationships for support and staying abreast of latest developments \
- Author and publish high quality documentation and knowledge base articles that serve IT peers and end users \
- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex issues across the organization, including for Executive Suite stakeholders \
- Provide expert technical guidance and elevated support when high‑stakes or executive‑level situations call for it \
- Build and cultivate long‑term relationships \
- Manage competing priorities across long‑horizon engineering projects and day‑to‑day technical needs, staying agile without losing sight of strategic goals \
- Drink from the firehose: always learning new technologies, exploring emerging workflows, and continuously deepening your engineering capabilities \
Minimum Qualifications
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- 6+ years experience in systems, networking, or security engineering, or IT infrastructure and platform engineering roles with demonstrated track record of excellence and increasing responsibilities \
- Growth mindset, tech-native, resourceful, optimistic and proactive attitude, self‑directed with high ownership and a drive to improve systems and processes \
- Strong general troubleshooting skills to diagnose, identify, and resolve technical issues \
- Critical thinking mindset to analyze complex, multi‑dimensional problems and navigate towards a proposed solution \
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written \
- Ability to work effectively within the most senior levels of the organization \
- Aptness to prioritize and execute tasks in a high‑pressure environment \
- Strong MacOS and Windows skills are required \
- Strong iOS skills are required; Android skills are preferred \
- Experience with administering a wide breadth of SaaS tools is required (e.g. Okta, JAMF, Google Workspace, etc.) \
- Experience with client platform engineering is required (e.g. Jamf, Kandji, Intune, etc.) \
- Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms is preferred (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) \
- Experience with networking concepts and protocols is preferred (e.g. switching, routing, DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, etc) \
- Experience working with Zoom, Zoom Rooms, and integrated Audio/Visual systems is preferred \
- Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams \
a16z culture
\We do only first class business and only in a first class way
\We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
\We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
\We are all different, we recognize that, and we win
\We celebrate the good times
\We do it for the team
\We play to win
\ \ \At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.
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\Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.
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