Head of Platform Engineering

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of advisory audit and tax practitioners at the worlds largest CPA firms. Put simply we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

Were headquartered in San Francisco CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives Bessemer Venture Partners 8VC Floodgate Y Combinator DNX Ventures Global Founders Capital Justin Kan Elad Gil and more.

We value diversity in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguides team is inclusive driven humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each others growth.

As a growth stage startup employee youll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product you will find a home at Fieldguide.

About the Role

Fieldguide is building the AI platform for audit and advisory firms. Our product combines audit workflow firm methodology evidence reviewer judgment and AI agents in a domain where correctness traceability security and trust affect customer decisions.

As Head of Platform Engineering you will own the systems that Fieldguides product agents engineers and enterprise deployments depend on. You will lead the Platform org across App Platform Agentic Engineering Infrastructure and Site Reliability.

This is a hands-on leadership role that combines engineering leadership platform product thinking systems judgment and operational rigor. You will partner directly with the CTO and EPD leadership peers to align platform investments with company strategy and you will be accountable for the systems our enterprise customers depend on for their most sensitive work.

What Youll Do

• Lead the Platform org that spans infrastructure application platform agentic engineering and site reliability

• Own the deployable infrastructure surface including SaaS regions in multiple geographies a federal region private deployments and future multi-cloud regions

• Build the operating model for pillar roadmaps service ownership production readiness platform scorecards and cross-pillar architecture decisions

• Make API parity part of how Fieldguide ships customer-visible workflows so Fieldguide can seamlessly integrate into audit firm workflows

• Establish reliability practice across platform services including owners SLOs dashboards runbooks incident review and on-call health

• Build Fieldguides internal agentic engineering platform that powers how the Fieldguide EPD org does work

• Partner with Product Security/Compliance Finance Sales and Customer Success on enterprise deployment options catalog packaging cost visibility and customer commitments

• Hire coach and develop TLs and managers who can own platform domains and pillars

Who You Are

• Experience leading platform infrastructure or product-platform teams through a growth stage where multiple product teams depend on shared systems

• Ability to reason across APIs authorization distributed systems cloud infrastructure reliability developer experience and AI runtime

• Experience building teams with TLs or managers who own domains roadmaps and operational quality

• Judgment on build-versus-buy tradeoffs for shared platforms vendor dependencies cloud services and internal tools

• Experience turning platform work into user-facing leverage including API adoption integration velocity self-service paths deployment options reliability and cost visibility

• Comfort partnering with GTM teams on enterprise requirements

• Familiarity with SRE practices including SLIs SLOs incident review production readiness on-call health and toil reduction

• Ability to write and communicate in concrete terms: tradeoffs dependencies owners exit criteria and sequencing

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with modern AI application infrastructure including model routing retrieval evals prompt and tool versioning model cost attribution and agent runtime behavior

• Experience with private deployments multi-region systems FedRAMP or similar compliance work or customer-managed environments

• Experience building internal developer platforms or agentic engineering systems

• Experience with Kubernetes Terraform managed Postgres object storage secrets management CI/CD observability and cloud cost attribution

• Prior experience as a founding or early platform leader at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company

More about Fieldguide

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

• Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.

• Fast - Launch fast with excellence iterate to perfection.

• Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.

• Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.

• Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.

• Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership

• Flexible PTO

• 401k

• Wellness benefits including a bundle of free therapy sessions

• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement

• Flexible work schedules

Required Experience:

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