Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Fieldguide · Remote · San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA) ·
COMPENSATION
$190k – $206k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote (US)
- AWS + Terraform
- Security focus
- Mentorship duties
Fieldguide automates assurance and audit work for cybersecurity, privacy, and financial sectors. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design core platform infrastructure, manage AWS environments via Terraform, and drive reliability and security standards. You will mentor other engineers and lead incident response processes to support a trust-based product.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain core platform infrastructure for scalable services
- Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for consistent environments
- Own major architectural decisions and long-term technical direction
- Build reusable platforms and AI-enabled tooling for engineering teams
- Monitor system reliability and cost efficiency via Datadog or CloudWatch
- Implement security best practices for identity and network management
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
- Mentor engineers to foster a culture of reliability and automation
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Document infrastructure design and operational procedures
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience building complex cloud solutions on AWS
- Proficient in provisioning services with Terraform and AWS CLI/API
- Skilled in designing monitoring and alerting with Datadog or CloudWatch
- Solid understanding of both SQL and NoSQL data systems
- Experience maintaining software in regulated environments like SOC 2 or HIPAA
- Comfortable participating in on-call support for 24/7 service availability
- Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineering team members
- Excellent communication skills for managing competing priorities
- Expertise in designing systems that improve engineering team efficiency
- Ability to communicate technical strategy to leadership
Nice to have
- Experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API
- Knowledge of Postgres architecture and observability tools
- Experience working with AI tools for internal applications
- Background in designing for security audits like SOC2 or PCI
Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- Datadog
- CloudWatch
- SQL
- NoSQL
- GraphQL
- Postgres
How you'll work
- Remote-first company based in San Francisco
- Open to remote candidates anywhere in the US
- Bay Area employees work in a hybrid setting
- On-call support required for service availability
What you get
- Competitive compensation with equity ownership
- Flexible paid time off policy
- 401k retirement plan
- Wellness benefits starting on day one
- Technology and work-from-home reimbursement
- Flexible work schedules