Fieldguide
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StaffSoftwareEngineer,AppPlatform
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“Staff Software Engineer, App Platform at Fieldguide. Skills: platform engineering, distributed systems design, API development, cloud architecture, technical leadership. design and build the foundational platform. design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services”
What You'll Achieve.
make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities to customers; ship quickly for our largest enterprise customers while keeping our systems reliable and scalable; unlocked meaningful customer outcomes; improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency across the application
Industry & Context.
turning hard problems into reusable building blocks
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time spent building product-facing platforms or foundational application services, product instincts and a track record of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes, Deep experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems that other engineers build on top of, fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems, Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams without owning them directly, Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy, software engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute to and review complex codebases, Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design, High agency and a bias toward owning problems end-to-end
Nice to Have
Experience building platforms that power AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces, Experience designing platforms that support both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments, Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company
What You'll Do.
design and build the foundational platform
design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services
build platform capabilities that compound the leverage of product and AI engineers
define the architecture for how new product capabilities get delivered
drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity
maintain and evolve the internal developer platform
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
operate as a technical leader across teams; partner directly with product, design, and AI engineering leaders; drive cross-team initiatives; drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
Communication Scope
Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
Process & Methodology
owning problems end-to-end
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners—specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses. We're based in San Francisco, CA, and built remote-first. We're backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will design and build the foundational platform that powers Fieldguide, including core platform services and tooling that make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities to customers. This is the platform on which every product surface and AI agent at Fieldguide is built. You will operate as a technical leader across teams, defining standards and reducing complexity for product, AI, and infrastructure engineers. Your work will directly shape how Fieldguide can ship quickly for our largest enterprise customers while keeping our systems reliable and scalable. WHAT YOU’LL OWN - Lead the design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services, including the foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives that every product surface and agent depends on - Build platform capabilities that compound the leverage of product and AI engineers, turning hard problems into reusable building blocks - Define the architecture for how new product capabilities get delivered across our SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments - Partner directly with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to understand customer needs and translate them into platform investments - Drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency across the application - Own the standards for
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