Infrastructure Platform Engineer

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.

As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

About the Role

As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will play a pivotal role in our mission to design, build, and deliver a cutting-edge foundation for our product teams in a dynamic, cloud-based environment. You'll collaborate closely with our talented product developers to craft and maintain the optimal cloud infrastructure, finding the balance between performance, resilience, and cost-effectiveness. You'll be at the forefront of emerging technologies, overseeing our production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic approach to system health to ensure top-notch quality, security, and reliability. Your role will also encompass providing primary operational support and engineering expertise for our distributed software applications across the entire Fieldguide environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain core platform infrastructure to support scalable, reliable, and secure services across engineering teams.

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, reliable environments.

• Collaborate with software and data engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure and platform tooling that accelerates development workflows.

• Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through metrics, logging, and alerting frameworks (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch).

• 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 other 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

• You have extensive hands-on experience in constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.

• You are skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API

• You have proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.).

• You have a solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL

• You have experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA,, etc.).

• You are comfortable in participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.

• You have a passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.

• You have excellent communication and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a rapidly evolving environment

Bonus Points

• You have experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API

• You have experience with database system architecture (eg, Postgres) and observability, to help us increase our overall database performance

• You have experience both working with AI, and with providing it as a tool for engineers and our internal applications to utilize

• You have experience working through and designing for security audits (e.g., SOC2, PCI, etc)

More about Fieldguide

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

• Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.

• Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.

• Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.

• Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.

• Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.

• Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership

• Flexible PTO

• 401k

• Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions

• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement

• Flexible work schedules