Staff Software Engineer - SRE

Who We're Looking For

At Fieldwire, we're looking for a Staff Software Engineer, SRE in the U.S. (remote or San

Francisco), to join the Platform team of 8 engineers and analysts working to support Fieldwire’s core platform services: Infrastructure, CI/CD, Data Lake, Security, and IT for Fieldwire. We are looking for an experienced engineer with strong technical leadership who will play a key role in maintaining our infrastructure resources at peak efficiency, capable of diving deep into problem solving with other engineers, making technical recommendations to product development teams, and providing constructive feedback.

You will represent your team internally and work with other engineering teams to shape the vision of Fieldwire’s platform services to create the best Construction Management Platform in the world!  You will have a significant impact on Fieldwire by proposing and championing improvements to processes and infrastructure. As an SRE, you will own and maintain the production systems that our users count on. This includes automation, architecture, performance, observability, troubleshooting, security, and reliability. You will be working closely with other engineering teams and advise them on best practices, architecture and design approaches to support new product features, and work with the manager of the Platform team to translate these requirements into actionable tasks for your team.

What You'll Be Doing

You will contribute to the Platform team’s mission by:

• Continue to evolve our fully-managed (CDK) cloud infrastructure needed to run our cutting edge distributed SaaS application.
• Influence design decisions and technical direction for engineers, QA and senior leaders.
• Participate in on-call rotation and off-hours migrations.
• Keep our platform up to date with the latest and greatest frameworks and tools.
• Coach and mentor engineers in technical and career growth.
• Build usage dashboards & tracking capacity usage/planning metrics.
• Audit users, systems, access, and licensing to ensure compliance with company policies and practices.

The primary responsibilities for our next Staff Software Engineer, SRE are to:

• Architect, build, and automate the cloud infrastructure that powers Fieldwire.
• Implement and maintain monitoring to achieve maximum uptime and capture critical metrics that directly drive Engineering decisions.
• Troubleshoot application, performance, and security issues in Fieldwire systems.
• Partner with Engineering teams to design and deliver a platform that can handle any scale.
• Conduct research and advise on how Fieldwire can leverage new and existing cloud services or tools.

At Fieldwire, we’re looking for our next Staff Software Engineer, SRE to have the following skills and experiences:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years as an SRE, Platform or DevOps engineer.
• Expert in at least 2 programming languages, such as Golang, Java/Kotlin, Python, Ruby, or Rust.
• Experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure and associated services (EC2, S3, etc...) with IaC (CDK or Terraform).
• Experience with Docker and containerization.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and responding to production incidents.
• Experience developing and building processes around change and incident management.

And if you have any of the following, we REALLY want you to apply today!

• Familiarity with Rust or Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem and its ecosystem.
• Knowledge of the administration and performance tuning of PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with AWS CDK.
• Management of CI/CD processes across multiple environments.
• Passion for advancing a culture of technical and operational excellence.
• Administration of zero trust or least-privilege permission models.
• Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack.

Why Fieldwire?

Fieldwire is a construction field management software, used on over 1,000,000+ projects worldwide. We’re obsessed with improving the way teams work together. We’re building a Field Management Platform dedicated to construction teams — providing operational excellence for one of the world’s largest global industries -- $10 Trillion/year. We’re delivering a superior, easy-to-use product that’s driven by the voice of our customers.

Fieldwire solves the problem of access to information and coordination of labor at a large scale for some of the largest projects in the world. The Fieldwire mobile app has a nearly five-star rating based on thousands of customer reviews. Fieldwire was venture backed by top venture capitalists and has already transformed the way thousands of companies worldwide are working together. Fieldwire was acquired by Hilti for $300M in November 2021.

Compensation:

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows: $195,000- $220,000 

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors such as your skills, qualifications and experience. In addition to the salary you may be eligible for a corporate bonus which can range up to 20%.

Where is the job located?

This role is fully remote within the US. Our office is located right off of Embarcadero Bart station. Easily accessible by all forms of public transportation.

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Fieldwire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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