Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Fieldguide, a remote-first company building software for assurance and audit practitioners, as an exceptional engineer to lead the Infrastructure Platform team. You will play a key role in expanding, hardening, and optimizing our platform, ensuring world-class scalability and reliability. This involves designing, implementing, and testing infrastructure, fostering a learning culture, serving as a subject matter expert, and collaborating with other teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in relevant roles, expertise in cloud platforms (preferably AWS), and proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably TypeScript, Python, or Go). Fieldguide offers competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, 401k, wellness benefits, technology and work-from-home reimbursement, and flexible work schedules.

Requirements

• 5+ years of total experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, or infrastructure roles
• Experience with high-uptime, globally distributed environments and IaC principles
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience with container runtime architectures, preferably Kubernetes
• Proficiency with at least one programming language, preferably Typescript, Python, or Go
• Experience leveraging network and security concepts to meet business compliance needs
• Experience with relational database design and administration
• 1+ year in a startup environment or interest in working at a startup

Responsibilities

• Serve as a steward of our platform by designing, implementing, and testing our infrastructure to meet our application feature and scalability goals
• Foster a learning culture within the team by conducting code reviews, root cause analysis, and continuous learning exercises
• Serve as a subject matter expert on our infrastructure to other teams seeking to build their services upon it
• Coordinate closely with the Application pillar in our Platform team as we tackle major initiatives like multi-region deployments and telemetry improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the Linux container and Kubernetes ecosystems
• Experience with distributed system reliability and performance testing, such as chaos engineering practices
• Extensive experience designing infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Extensive knowledge of web application observability, ideally OpenTelemetry
• Experience with vector storage and search tools, such as pg_vector or OpenSearch

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k
• Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
• Flexible work schedules