Staff Software Engineer, App Platform
Fieldguide5 months ago
Base Salary
$210k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of core platform services, foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives.
- Build reusable platform capabilities that increase the leverage of product and AI engineers.
- Define architecture for delivering capabilities across SaaS, single-tenant enterprise, and government-cloud environments.
- Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments.
- Drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity, system reliability, and application consistency.
- Own standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns.
- Maintain and evolve the internal developer platform, including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise the organization’s platform engineering standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services.
- Strong experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems for other engineers to build on.
- Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms, AWS preferred, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams without direct ownership of those teams.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to contribute to and review complex codebases.
- Strong product judgment and experience shipping platform capabilities that deliver customer outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for alignment across engineering, product, and design.
- Experience building platforms for AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces, is a bonus.
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments is a bonus.
- Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Flexible time off and work schedules
- Technology reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
- Wellness benefits starting on the first day
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Equity is included in the compensation package
Tech Stack
About Fieldguide
Fieldguide builds an AI-native audit and advisory platform that automates engagement workflows, evidence collection, and compliance reporting for accounting and risk teams. The cloud software combines workflow automation, real-time collaboration, and agent-based AI to support standards across security, regulatory, and risk assessments, sold as subscription SaaS to firms. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves many large audit and advisory practices.