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Staff Software Engineer, App Platform

Fieldguide · San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA) · 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 Bessemer.

About the role

As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will design and build the foundational platform that powers Fieldguide, including core platform services and tooling that make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities to customers. This is the platform on which every product surface and AI agent at Fieldguide is built.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time spent building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
  • Strong product instincts and a track record of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes
  • Deep experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems that other engineers build on top of
  • Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
  • Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams without owning them directly
  • Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy
More about this role

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining 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.

As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will design and build the foundational platform that powers Fieldguide, including core platform services and tooling that make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities to customers. This is the platform on which every product surface and AI agent at Fieldguide is built.

You will operate as a technical leader across teams, defining standards and reducing complexity for product, AI, and infrastructure engineers. Your work will directly shape how Fieldguide can ship quickly for our largest enterprise customers while keeping our systems reliable and...

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