Head of Platform Engineering
FieldguideAudit and company
San Francisco, United States$401K - $401KDirector
Bessemer Venture Partners
8VC
Y Combinator
Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Thomson Reuters
Geodesic Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the Platform org that spans infrastructure, application platform, agentic engineering, and site reliability.
- •Fieldguide is building the AI platform for audit and advisory firms.
- •Our product combines audit workflow, firm methodology, evidence, reviewer judgment, and AI agents in a domain where correctness, traceability, security, and trust affect customer decisions.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the Platform org that spans infrastructure, application platform, agentic engineering, and site reliability Own the deployable infrastructure surface, including SaaS regions in multiple geographies, a federal region, private deployments, and future multi-cloud regions Build the operating model for pillar roadmaps, service ownership, production readiness, platform scorecards, and cross-pillar architecture decisions Requirements Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or product-platform teams through a growth stage where multiple product teams depend on shared systems Ability to reason across APIs, authorization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and AI runtime Experience building teams with TLs or managers who own domains, roadmaps, and operational quality
Required skills
Engineering ManagementKubernetesTerraformAWSPostgreSQL
Nice-to-have skills
Microservices
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership, Flexible PTO, 401k, Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions, Technology & Work from Home reimbursement, Flexible work schedules
Tech stack
KubernetesTerraformCI/CDAWSPostgreSQL
