Infrastructure Engineer

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Fieldguide, you will be a trusted, high-performing contributor who leads complex infrastructure initiatives and meaningfully improves team velocity. You will design and maintain the cloud foundation that powers our product, serving as a technical owner for critical areas of our infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with product engineers to build reliable, secure, and scalable systems while beginning to shape team norms around quality and automation.

Requirements

You have 3-5 years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.
You are skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API.
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 experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
You are comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.
You have a passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.
You have excellent communication and organizational skills and are capable of managing multiple competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

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.)

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.
Collaborate with software and data engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure and platform tooling that accelerates development workflows.
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.
Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
Mentor junior engineers on infrastructure fundamentals and best practices.
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.