Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Fieldguide is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead critical infrastructure initiatives and set the technical direction for building and operating infrastructure in an AI-native world.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the most critical, high-leverage infrastructure initiatives across the engineering organization


• Design and own the technical quality bar and architectural standards for Fieldguide’s infrastructure


• Build platforms and AI-enabled systems that unlock new product and delivery capabilities for multiple teams


• Identify and execute on work that materially accelerates delivery across engineering


• Partner with executives to shape and communicate technical and AI strategy


• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by setting organization-wide standards for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management


• Bootstrap large reliability, automation, and platform initiatives that fundamentally improve how teams operate


• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to become force multipliers themselves


• Represent Fieldguide’s technical excellence and help attract top-tier infrastructure talent

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services


• Skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API


• Proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch


• Solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL


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


• Comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services


• Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers


• Excellent communication and organizational skills


• Demonstrated org-level impact: creating frameworks, platforms, or automation that have accelerated multiple engineering teams


• Excel at translating complex technical concepts into business impact and partnering with executives


• Widely trusted and sought out as a technical leader across an organization

About Fieldguide

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. 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.

Fieldguide is a values-based company with values including Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, and Win-win.