a16z
DevX / Developer Operations (Partner 16, Partner 18), ASG
San Francisco, California, United States · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$269k-$314kDetected 48 days ago
PythonGitSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLElasticsearchDatabricksAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsCircleCIFigmaCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- While doing so, you will closely work together with your fellow engineers and other teams throughout the firm.
- This role requires an in-office presence 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco, CA office.
Responsibilities
- As our first Developer Experience (Dev X) engineer, you will own, improve and help with the adoption of our internal developer platform as well as the team's wider product portfolio.
- You will work on and own the infrastructure and tooling that the team and its partners are building with.
- We own a tight feedback loop with our users and take on requests from all corners of the firm.
- Build and maintain shared tooling, templates, and internal libraries that accelerate development across the firm's products
- Support observability, monitoring, and alerting so engineers can self-serve when things break in production
- Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to help ensure developer workflows meet security and compliance requirements
- Write and maintain developer documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks that actually get used
- Take ownership of assigned projects and services, from development through production support, with increasing autonomy over time
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python 3, Rust or similar backend languages and willingness to learn new technologies
- Track record of defining and shipping developer platforms or internal tooling that measurably improved engineering velocity
- Experience deploying services on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence
Nice to have
- Experience with containerized services (Docker)
- experience with Kubernetes is a plus
- Experience working with production SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- NoSQL experience (e.g., Elasticsearch) is a plus
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) is a plus
Skills
- The Applied Software Group operates in the mode of an internal startup.
Compensation
- Partner 16: $269,000 - $314,000
Company info
- Contribute to and help improve the our developer platform, associated with a diverse set of applications
- Continuously work with your fellow colleagues to understand, review and assist their diverse use-cases for projects
- Ship improvements iteratively, incorporating feedback from your users to continuously improve the developer experience
- Write clear, well-structured, and maintainable code
- Bring positive energy in every interaction with the team and foster inclusive collaboration
- Stay curious about new tools, technologies, and approaches relevant to infrastructure and developer productivity
- Learn the inner workings of VC and work closely with the investing partnership
- 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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