Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide | AWS & Complia in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Career Trajectory: This is a Senior IC (Individual Contributor) role with strong ownership signals — architectural decision-making, mentorship responsibilities, and cross-team platform influence. It's well positioned as a stepping stone toward a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager track, especially given the startup scale where broad impact is visible.
Compensation & Market Positioning: No salary is disclosed, but Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineers in the US typically earn $160,000–$220,000 annually at VC-backed startups at this stage (Series B/C range implied by Goldman Sachs and Bessemer backing). The "meaningful ownership" language suggests equity. Candidates should benchmark against Levels.fyi data for similar-stage companies.
High-Demand Skills You'll Develop:
- AWS multi-service architecture and Terraform IaC — consistently top-ranked cloud skills
- Compliance-aware infrastructure (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) — increasingly critical in fintech and security SaaS
- AI-enabled tooling integration — emerging and highly valued skill set
- Incident response and postmortem leadership — leadership-facing experience
Culture Signals: Early-stage startup with strong investor pedigree (Y Combinator, Bessemer). Expect high autonomy, fast iteration, and a small-team environment where your work is directly visible. The values-forward culture ("Fearless," "Owners") suggests a high-performance, accountability-driven team.
Green Flags: Remote-first design, flexible PTO, mentorship culture, and direct ownership of architecture decisions are all strong indicators of a healthy engineering environment. Watch for: on-call demands and early-stage ambiguity, which can be taxing without clear rotation policies documented upfront.
About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We're based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're 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. Fieldguide's 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 other's growth.
As an early-stage startup employee, you'll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners' lives easier by bringing together 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
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide, you'll own critical infrastructure decisions, build platforms that other teams rely on, and bring a level of rigor and reliability that makes the whole organization move with more confidence. In a product built around trust and compliance, the quality of our infrastructure isn't just an engineering concern, but also core to what we promise our customers.
Our engineering hub is located in San Francisco. This role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US; Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.
What You'll Do
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.
Who You Are
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 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, capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
Deep expertise designing systems and processes that make engineering teams measurably faster and more effective.
Ability to clearly communicate technical strategy to managers and executives.
Bonus Points
Experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API.
Experience with database system architecture (e.g., Postgres) and observability to help increase overall database performance.
Experience working with AI, and with providing it as a tool for engineers and internal applications.
Experience working through and designing for security audits (e.g., SOC 2, PCI, etc.).
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
Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
Flexible PTO
401k
Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
Flexible work schedules
Frequently Asked Questions
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