Head of Engineering, Foundations

This team owns infrastructure that supports $200B+ in assets and $90B in money movement. AngelList is hiring a Head of Engineering, Foundations to lead the team. The role reports directly to the CEO, has company-level scope, and includes personally shipping work, not just directing it. Part of the team's scope includes designing how agents, as non-human users, interact with company systems, including sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback.

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 the whole engineering org runs on, including developer platforms, deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling; Automate infrastructure as code on Kubernetes and AWS using Pulumi, cdk8s, and ArgoCD; Build the harnesses agents execute inside, including sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback against systems that move real money; Set engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence

Requirements

12+ years in engineering; 5+ years leading teams; A builder who leads, writing clean, well-tested code and shipping systems end to end; Leverage through senior engineers, having developed staff and principal ICs; Systems judgment, having operated consequential infrastructure; Developer experience as a product; Authoring the engineering standard for infrastructure

Nice to have

Kubernetes experience; AWS experience; infrastructure-as-code experience; Experience with the exact stack is not required, judgment matters more

Benefits

Competitive base salary; Benefits; Equity package