Staff Software Engineer, App Platform
$210k - $265k • Remote • San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA) • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Fieldguide is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design and build the foundational platform powering all of Fieldguide's product surfaces and AI agents. This role involves leading the evolution of core platform services, APIs, and shared primitives, and building capabilities that enhance the leverage of product and AI engineers. You will define architectures for delivering new product capabilities across various environments and partner with leaders in product, design, and AI engineering to translate customer needs into platform investments. The position requires driving cross-team initiatives to improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency, while also owning standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns. Additionally, you will maintain and evolve the internal developer platform and mentor engineers across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services, foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives.
- Build platform capabilities that compound the leverage of product and AI engineers.
- Define the architecture for delivering new product capabilities across SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments.
- Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments.
- Drive cross-team initiatives to improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency.
- Own the 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 bar for platform engineering.
Requirements
- 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 for other engineers.
- Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams.
- Excellent judgment on platform development decisions.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to contribute to and review complex codebases.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High agency and a bias toward owning problems end-to-end.
- Experience building platforms that power AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces (bonus).
- Experience designing platforms for both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments (bonus).
- Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company (bonus).
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Flexible time off and work schedules
- Technology reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day