Fieldguide is hiring an Infrastructure Platform Engineer

About Us Fieldguide is revolutionizing global commerce and capital markets by automating and simplifying assurance and audit processes, specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial domains. Essentially, we develop software that fosters trust between businesses. Our headquarters are in San Francisco, CA, but we operate as a remote-first organization that empowers employees to excel from anywhere. We've secured backing from premier investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and others. We champion diversity across backgrounds and experiences. Our team requires individuals from varied walks of life to help shape the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide's culture is inclusive, motivated, humble, and supportive. We intentionally cultivate an environment that values not just individual strengths but mutual growth and support. As an early-stage startup team member, you'll contribute to transforming business trust. We simplify audit practitioners' workflows by reducing their workload by up to 50% and improving work-life balance. Those who align with our values and enthusiasm for building an exceptional culture and product will find their professional home here. About the Role As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you'll be crucial in designing, constructing, and delivering a state-of-the-art foundation for our product teams within a dynamic, cloud-based ecosystem. You'll collaborate closely with product developers to optimize cloud infrastructure, balancing performance, resilience, and cost-effectiveness. You'll lead production environment oversight by monitoring availability and adopting a comprehensive approach to system health, ensuring exceptional quality, security, and reliability. Your responsibilities will include providing primary operational support and engineering expertise across Fieldguide's distributed software applications. What You'll Do - Design, build, and maintain core platform infrastructure supporting scalable, reliable, and secure services across engineering teams. - Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, reliable environments. - Collaborate with software and data engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure and platform tooling accelerating development workflows. - Monitor and enhance system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through metrics, logging, and alerting frameworks. - Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by implementing best practices for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management. - Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements. - Mentor and collaborate with engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement. - Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring high availability and resilience of critical systems. - Document infrastructure design, architecture decisions, and operational procedures for transparency and team enablement. Who You Are - Extensive hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services. - Skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and AWS CLI/API. - Proficient in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch. - Solid understanding of data systems, including SQL and NoSQL. - Experience developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments. - Comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 service availability. - Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers. - Excellent communication and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a rapidly evolving environment. Bonus Points - Experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API. - Experience with database system architecture and observability to enhance database performance. - Experience working with AI and providing it as a tool for engineers and internal applications. - Experience working through and designing security audits. More about Fieldguide Our core values are: - Fearless - Inspire and break down seemingly impossible walls. - Fast - Launch quickly with excellence, iterate to perfection. - Lovable - Deliver happiness and exceptional experiences. - Owners - Execute and manage the business with ownership. - Win-win - Create mutual value and earn lifelong trust. - Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams. Some Benefits - Competitive compensation with meaningful ownership - Flexible PTO - 401k - Wellness benefits, including free therapy sessions - Technology and Work from Home reimbursement - Flexible work schedules Compensation Range: $185K - $250K