Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

16h•$250,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Fieldguide is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead the team building the foundational platform behind its software for assurance and audit practitioners. The platform includes core services, APIs, shared primitives, and developer tooling used across product surfaces and AI agents. The role leads ten engineers, including Senior and Staff individual contributors, and sets the platform roadmap in partnership with product, design, AI, and infrastructure leaders. The team's work is intended to help Fieldguide deliver capabilities quickly for enterprise customers while maintaining reliable and scalable systems. The manager will build and develop the team, establish platform vision and architecture strategy across SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments, and lead cross-functional investments that improve product velocity and system reliability. The position reports to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering. Fieldguide's engineering hub is in San Francisco; the role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the U.S., while Bay Area employees work in a hybrid setting.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience.
3+ years managing engineers, ideally including managers or multiple teams.
Significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services, with the technical depth to review designs, challenge tradeoffs, and earn the respect of Staff-level engineers.
A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, and raising the bar through coaching and performance management.
Strong product instincts and a history of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes.
Experience setting technical strategy and roadmaps across multiple teams, and driving alignment with product, design, and executive stakeholders.
Fluency with modern cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
Excellent judgment about what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy.
Excellent written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading teams that build platforms for AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces.
Experience with platforms supporting both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments.
Experience as a founding or early platform leader at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company.
AWS experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
Set the platform vision and roadmap, prioritizing investments across core services, shared primitives, and internal developer tooling based on customer and engineering needs.
Own architecture strategy for delivering product capabilities across SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments, partnering with Staff engineers and tech leads on key decisions.
Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments and make build, delegate-to-product-teams, or buy tradeoffs.
Drive cross-team initiatives to improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency across the application.
Establish standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns, and ensure teams adopt them.
Oversee the internal developer platform, including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities.
Own team operational health, including reliability targets, incident response, on-call, and delivery predictability.
Define team-level success metrics and communicate progress and tradeoffs to executive leadership.