Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

29d•Remote

About The Position

As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will play a pivotal role in our mission to design, build, and deliver a cutting-edge foundation for our product teams in a dynamic, cloud-based environment. You'll collaborate closely with our talented product developers to craft and maintain the optimal cloud infrastructure, finding the balance between performance, resilience, and cost-effectiveness. You'll be at the forefront of emerging technologies, overseeing our production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic approach to system health to ensure top-notch quality, security, and reliability. Your role will also encompass providing primary operational support and engineering expertise for our distributed software applications across the entire Fieldguide environment.

Requirements

You have extensive hands-on experience in 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 in 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, capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a rapidly evolving environment

Nice To Haves

You have experience with GraphQL as a database front-end API
You have experience with database system architecture (eg, 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 and collaborate with other engineers, 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.