Engineer, Incident Response
US$295,000 – US$347,000 / yr base salary
Posted 6 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Partner 34, Lead Engineer, Incident Response”
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- Level
- 34
- Expected experience
- 9+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
| Base salary | US$295,000 – US$347,000 / yr |
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CertificationsGCIH
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.
We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve 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
We're hiring a Lead Engineer, Incident Response to lead and shape a16z's detection and response team. This is a hands-on role: you'll spend a significant portion of your time investigating incidents, writing and reviewing detections, building automation, and making the harder technical response decisions. You'll also manage and develop the engineers on the team.
You'll build and improve detection and response capabilities across the firm's cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoint environments, shaping the roadmap, tooling, threat hunting, and response practices. You'll also develop capabilities to protect the firm against impersonation and fraud. You'll work closely with Security Engineering, IT, Legal, Compliance, and other cross-functional teams to put these capabilities into practice and turn lessons from incidents into better detections, tooling, and controls.
Venture capital firms face threats that extend beyond their infrastructure: capital call wire fraud, impersonation, and social engineering against employees and partners, alongside attacks by organized criminal and nation-state groups. Your work protects sensitive firm and limited partner (LP) information, financial transactions, and the relationships the firm depends on.