A16z

Partner 20, Staff Engineer, Security Automation

San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$243k-$284kDetected 25 days ago

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About the role

We're hiring a Staff Engineer, Security Automation to anchor automation across a16z's security org.
The team needs them stitched into one picture and one workflow rather than ten siloed ones.

You'll build with and on AI: LLM-augmented workflows, agentic automations, AI-assisted analysis as a first-class building block - and you'll help the rest of the security team get more leverage out of AI in their own work.
Use AI as a first-class building block - LLM-augmented analysis, agentic automations, AI-assisted summarization - and design for compounding leverage, not one-off scripts
Raise the rest of the security team's leverage with AI - share patterns, ship tooling others use, and make it easy for security engineers and IR engineers to add AI to their own work
Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate across security, engineering, and IT without creating friction

breadth across many is required
Experience translating technical security concepts, decisions, and trade-offs into terms non-technical audiences across the firm can act on

a16z's security stack spans cloud telemetry, SIEM, identity, endpoint, vulnerability scanning, ticketing, and more.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $243,000 - $284,000, actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience, skills, and scope.

Build the connective tissue across the security tools the org relies on - SIEM, vulnerability scanners, EDR, identity, asset management, ticketing - and centralize the data they generate into a single picture the team can act on
Use AI as a first-class building block
LLM-augmented analysis, agentic automations, AI-assisted summarization - and design for compounding leverage, not one-off scripts
Build the frameworks and dashboards that unify asset inventory, vulnerability posture, exposure reviews, and compliance evidence across systems
Take the bigger automation problems off the team's plate - vulnerability management at scale, asset hygiene, access reviews, and the workflows that span multiple tools
We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
We are all different, we recognize that, and we win

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