Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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Staff Infrastructure Engineer leading infrastructure initiatives and shaping technical strategy at a remote-first startup focused on audit and cybersecurity. Collaborating with executives and mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the most critical, high-leverage infrastructure initiatives across the engineering organization.
  • Design and own the technical quality bar and architectural standards for Fieldguide’s infrastructure.
  • Build platforms and AI-enabled systems that unlock new product and delivery capabilities for multiple teams.
  • Identify and execute on work that materially accelerates delivery across engineering.
  • Partner with executives to shape and communicate technical and AI strategy.
  • Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by setting organization-wide standards for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management.
  • Bootstrap large reliability, automation, and platform initiatives that fundamentally improve how teams operate.
  • Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to become force multipliers themselves.
  • Remain hands-on where it creates the greatest leverage — including incident response, architecture reviews, and high-stakes technical decisions.
  • Represent Fieldguide’s technical excellence and help attract top-tier infrastructure talent.

Requirements:

  • 10+ 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 are capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
  • Demonstrated org-level impact: creating frameworks, platforms, or automation that have accelerated multiple engineering teams.
  • Excel at translating complex technical concepts into business impact and are comfortable partnering with executives.
  • Widely trusted and sought out as a technical leader across an organization.

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