Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide, owning critical infrastructure decisions for scalable services. Building reliable platforms and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance productivity.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain core platform infrastructure to support scalable, reliable, and secure services across engineering teams.
  • Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, reliable environments.
  • Own major architectural decisions and long-term technical direction for Fieldguide’s infrastructure.
  • Build reusable platforms, abstractions, and AI-enabled tooling that raise the baseline for engineering teams.
  • Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through metrics, logging, and alerting frameworks (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch).
  • Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by implementing best practices for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management.
  • Lead incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and structural long-term improvements.
  • Mentor and collaborate with engineers and tech leads, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
  • Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring high availability and resilience of critical systems.
  • Document infrastructure design, architecture decisions, and operational procedures for transparency and team enablement.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.
  • Skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API.
  • Proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
  • Comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.
  • Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills and capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
  • Deep expertise designing systems and processes that make engineering teams measurably faster and more effective.
  • Clearly communicate technical strategy to managers and executives.

Benefits:

  • 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