Partner 20, Staff Engineer, Security Automation

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.

Weve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what its like to be in the founders shoes. Weve 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

Were hiring a Staff Engineer Security Automation to anchor automation across a16zs security org. Your mandate is leverage connect the tools the security team relies on centralize the data they generate and build the dashboards and AI-native automations that let a small team (Security Engineering and Incident Response) operate at the scale of a much larger one.

This is an AI-native role. Youll build with and on AI: LLM-augmented workflows agentic automations AI-assisted analysis as a first-class building block and youll help the rest of the security team get more leverage out of AI in their own work.

a16zs security stack spans cloud telemetry SIEM identity endpoint vulnerability scanning ticketing and more. The team needs them stitched into one picture and one workflow rather than ten siloed ones. Youll be the person who makes that real. Youll work day to day with the Security Engineering Lead Incident Response SecOps IT and ASG(A16Zs Applied Software Group).

Venture capital firms face targeted sophisticated threats capital call wire fraud vishing social engineering and threat actors who specifically pursue firms in this space. Your work protects the firm our LPs and our portfolio companies.

This role requires an in-office presence 2 days a week in our San Francisco CA office.

To join our team you should be excited to:

• 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 teams plate vulnerability management at scale asset hygiene access reviews and the workflows that span multiple tools
• Raise the rest of the security teams 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

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of security engineering experience with automation and tool-building as a core part of your work not a side project
• Builder mindset comfortable shipping production-quality security tooling with strong Python or similar
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or AI APIs integrating AI into workflows not just using AI-powered products
• Broad security fundamentals across cloud security detection engineering identity and vulnerability management. Depth in one is fine; breadth across many is required
• Understanding of AI security risks: prompt injection data exfiltration from LLM workflows agent identity boundaries and model risk
• Experience translating technical security concepts decisions and trade-offs into terms non-technical audiences across the firm can act on
• Low ego high empathy and the capacity to collaborate across security engineering and IT without creating friction

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $243000 - $284000 actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience skills and scope.

This role is eligible to participate in the a16z carry program and various discretionary bonus programs as well as benefit and perquisite plans including health dental vision disability life insurance 401K plan vacation and sick leave.

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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