infrastructure
Posted Feb 27Senior Infrastructure Engineer
at Fieldguide
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.) More About Fieldguide Fieldguide is a values-based company.