# Staff Software Engineer, App Platform at Fieldguide

- Company: Fieldguide
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.fieldguide.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fieldguide/872e8499-56da-4a4c-88b9-a5e987aac456
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fieldguide-staff-software-engineer-app-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering, Product, and Design