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Senior Software Security Engineer

Fieldguide · San Francisco, CA · Remote

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About Fieldguide

Fieldguide is the agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms. Field Agents run planning, testing, and review—trusted by 50% of the top 100 firms. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Our customers hand us their most sensitive audit and compliance data, and our product is built around trust. That means our own security practices are core to what we promise them. The Information Security & Compliance team protects Fieldguide’s systems and earns that trust every day. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, shipping production services, libraries, or platforms. You write strong, well-tested code and can build security systems independently
  • You’ve led a security initiative from design through adoption, and you can point to engineers who are safer and faster because of it
  • You have hands-on experience with identity and secrets management, including protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
  • You’re familiar with Kubernetes security primitives, including RBAC, namespaces, network policies, and admission controllers
  • You reason clearly about trust boundaries and threat models to prioritize risk
  • You thrive on breadth, ambiguity, and evolving priorities rather than a single narrow lane
More about this role

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating the work of assurance and audit practitioners, specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA and built remote-first. We’re backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.

Our customers hand us their most sensitive audit and compliance data, and our product is built around trust. That means our own security practices are core to what we promise them. The Information Security & Compliance team protects Fieldguide’s systems and earns that trust every day.

As one of the first dedicated security hires, you’ll help build the security function from the ground up. As a Senior Software Security Engineer, you will make the secure path the easy path for every Fieldguide engineer. You’ll range across secure design, identity and secrets management, infrastructure security, and agentic AI security. We prioritize around...

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