Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Department: Engineering, Product, and Design

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)

Compensation: $210K – $275K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

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 Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, 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 startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together 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 a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide, your impact spans multiple teams and product areas. You set the technical direction for how Fieldguide builds and operates infrastructure in an AI-native world. You will lead our most critical infrastructure initiatives, partner with executives on technical and AI strategy, and design platforms and systems that unlock new product and delivery capabilities at scale.

Our engineering hub is located in San Francisco. This role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US; Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

• Remain hands-on where it creates the greatest leverage — including incident response, architecture reviews, and high-stakes technical decisions.

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

Who You Are

• You have 10+ years of hands-on experience 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 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 and are capable of managing multiple competing priorities.

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

• You excel at translating complex technical concepts into business impact and are comfortable partnering with executives.

• You are widely trusted and sought out as a technical leader across an organization.

Bonus Points

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

• You have experience with database system architecture (e.g., 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

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership

• Flexible PTO

• 401k

• Wellness benefits starting on your first day

• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement

• Flexible work schedules