Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• 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

• 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

Benefits

• Health

• Dental

• PTO- You have deep expertise designing systems and processes that make engineering teams measurably faster and more effective

• You have a passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers

• You have experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

• You can clearly communicate technical strategy to managers and executives

• You have proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)

• You have a solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL

• You have 5+ years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services

• You are comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services

• You are skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API

• You have excellent communication and organizational skills and are capable of managing multiple competing priorities

• You have experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API

• You have experience with database system architecture (e.g., Postgres) and observability, to help us increase our overall database performance

• You have experience both working with AI, and with providing it as a tool for engineers and our internal applications to utilize

• You have experience working through and designing for security audits (e.g., SOC2, PCI, etc.)