What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position at AngelList?
About AngelList:
We exist to accelerate innovation. We do this by giving more people the opportunity to participate in the venture economy by building the financial infrastructure that makes it possible for more people to invest in world-changing startups. We also build tools for startup founders that help them run their operations, so they can focus on building their company.
AngelList is the nexus of venture capital and the startup community. We support over $171B assets on our platform, and we’ve driven capital to over 13,000 startups. 57% of top-tier U.S. VC deals involve investors on AngelList.
While our scale is large, our ambitions are even larger – we’re innovating on the infrastructure for venture and individual investors and the startups they invest in. Come build with us!
About the Role:
We’re building the most efficient platform for operating funds and investing in startups. Our Infrastructure team is small, fast-moving, and foundational to every product we build. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll elevate how we architect and scale the infrastructure that supports billions in venture assets.
You'll be designing and leading efforts to scale our production environment to support our growth, ensuring we maintain high standards for observability, reliability, and efficiency. We're not just supporting and enabling developers—we're raising the bar for the entire platform.
\n- Architect and scale our production environments, including Kubernetes clusters and RDS-backed databases on AWS, providing hands-on technical leadership on infrastructure direction.
- Build infrastructure automation using Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Pulumi, cdk8s, ArgoCD) to improve system reliability and repeatability.
- Monitor infrastructure health, triage incidents, and drive root cause analysis following modern SRE best practices.
- Provide technical leadership for the infrastructure team, influencing the engineering roadmap as we scale our product and business offerings.
- Deeply experienced operating Kubernetes in production environments, and possess strong programming skills.
- Experienced in designing and operating infrastructure end-to-end in production on public cloud.
- Leading complex technical initiatives that enable rapid iteration across engineering teams.
- Improved optimization of our production environments.
- Developer satisfaction with platform tools and workflows increases over time.
If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.
AngelList has offices in a few cities, and our engineering hub in San Francisco. We’re focused on hiring from this hub office so engineers and product teams can collaborate in the office at least twice per week (Tuesdays and choice between Wednesday or Thursday).
Compensation: The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, performance based variable component, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $200,000 annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.
Benefits: We support our employees in their lives both inside and outside of work.
*See additional detail on our benefits here: https://angell.ist/venture-benefits
*Learn about our Funders & Founders Program here: https://join.angellist.com/
Working at AngelList: At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape how we work, collaborate, and create impact. If the below resonate, we’d love to have you with us.
*Beliefs: https://angell.ist/beliefs
*Values & Leadership Expectations: https://angell.ist/values
AngelList is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.