# Head of Engineering, Foundations

**Company:** [AngelList](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/angellist)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, AWS, Pulumi, Cdk8S, Argo CD, Infrastructure As Code, Developer Platforms, Deployment Pipelines, Observability, Developer Tooling, Sandboxing, Audit Trails, Rollback, Reliability, Operability
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Leads the Foundations engineering organization while remaining hands-on in building developer platforms, deployment infrastructure, observability, and agent execution systems for high-consequence money movement. Requires 12+ years of engineering experience, team leadership, and strong Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and grow a small team of high-performing engineers.
- Develop staff and principal engineers who carry technical standards into other teams.
- Build the platform used by the engineering organization, including developer platforms, deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling.
- Automate infrastructure as code on Kubernetes and AWS using Pulumi, cdk8s, and ArgoCD.
- Build agent execution harnesses with sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback for systems that move real money.
- Set engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence.
- Sequence quality work that enables teams to continue shipping quickly over time.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams.
- Hands-on builder who writes clean, well-tested code and has designed and shipped systems end to end.
- Experience developing staff and principal individual contributors.
- Experience operating consequential infrastructure.
- Strong systems judgment and a clear point of view on infrastructure quality.
- Experience designing infrastructure as a product for engineers.

## Compensation
- No compensation information provided.

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