Staff Software Engineer, App Platform
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
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 practitionersspecifically in cybersecurity privacy and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
Were based in San Francisco CA and built remote-first. Were 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 Youll Own
Lead the design and evolution of Fieldguides 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 service design data modeling and platform integration patterns used across Fieldguide
Maintain and evolve the internal developer platform that supports the team including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the org and raise the bar for platform engineering at Fieldguide
Who You Are
10 years of experience in software engineering with significant time spent building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
Strong 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
Strong 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
Strong 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
Bonus Points
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
Benefits
Competitive compensation with equity
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Flexible time off and work schedules
Technology reimbursements
401(k) plan
Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Our Values
Fearless Inspire and break down seemingly impossible walls
Fast Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection
Lovable Deliver happiness and 11-star experiences
Owners Execute and run the business with ownership
Win-win Create mutual value and earn trust for life
Inclusive Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
The Fieldguide AI Platform for Advisory & Audit provides an engagement automation platform for advisory and audit firms to save time, increase margins, and improve client satisfaction.