Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

3d•Remote

About The Position

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Fieldguide, you will play a critical leadership role in defining and driving the reliability, scalability, and observability strategy across our platform. You will operate as a technical leader and force multiplier, influencing system design, reliability standards, and engineering practices across multiple teams. This role goes beyond operating our internal systems. You will shape how reliability is engineered into our products from the ground up. You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives, establish best practices, and mentor engineers while ensuring our systems remain resilient, performant, and scalable as the company grows.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and production infrastructure.
Extensive experience operating and scaling distributed systems in cloud environments, with a strong preference for AWS.
Deep expertise in system reliability, scalability, and performance engineering at scale.
Demonstrated experience implementing SLO-driven engineering practices and reliability frameworks.
Strong background building and owning observability ecosystems (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling, particularly Terraform or equivalent.
Proven experience leading incident management, post-mortems, and production operations.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to contribute to and review complex codebases.
Track record of technical leadership and cross-functional influence across engineering and product teams.
Ability to balance tactical short-term needs with strategic long-term architectural improvements.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing or operating multi-region and globally distributed systems.
Deep expertise in distributed tracing and performance analysis across complex service architectures.
Hands-on experience with database scalability and performance tuning at scale.
Familiarity with compliance-driven engineering environments (e.g., SOC 2, FedRAMP, or similar frameworks).
Experience applying chaos engineering practices to validate and improve system resilience.
Experience building or scaling an SRE function within a high-growth organization.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems across our cloud infrastructure.
Define and drive adoption of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across engineering teams.
Architect and continuously improve observability platforms (metrics, logging, tracing).
Own reliability strategy and roadmap, proactively identifying risks and driving long-term improvements.
Lead cross-team initiatives to improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.
Establish and enforce best practices for incident response, on-call, and operational excellence.
Drive root cause analysis and systemic improvements through blameless postmortems.
Champion automation and reduction of operational toil.
Guide capacity planning, load testing, and performance optimization efforts.
Design and validate disaster recovery, failover strategies, and resilience testing.
Mentor and coach engineers to elevate reliability engineering maturity.
Partner with Staff engineers across the organization to drive meaningful change
Partner with leadership to align business goals with reliability investments.