Senior Engineering Manager, Fieldguide
Infrastructure Platform
$198-230k
Offers Equity
Software for assurance & advisory firms
Open for applications
Software for assurance & advisory firms
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$198-230k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Fieldguide's mission is to increase trust in commerce and capital markets.
Role
Who you are
- A strong technical background in this domain will be essential for guiding the team and making informed decisions
- This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who enjoys shaping engineering practices, improving systems at scale, and mentoring a team – all within a fast-paced startup environment where infrastructure excellence is critical to company success
- Engineering Leadership Experience: 3–6+ years of engineering management experience, including successfully leading teams of software/infrastructure engineers. You have a track record of hiring strong talent, coaching engineers’ growth, and managing performance to build high-performing teams
- Technical Background in Infrastructure: ~10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with significant focus in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles (e.g. SRE, DevOps engineer, systems engineer). You have deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure and operational best practices – for example, hands-on experience with cloud providers (especially AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform), networking, and system security
- Proven Execution & Scaling: Demonstrated ability to plan and deliver complex engineering projects that improved reliability, scalability, or developer productivity. You can point to examples of systems you’ve scaled or processes you’ve implemented (such as multi-region architectures, monitoring/observability frameworks, or security improvements) to support business growth
- Hands-On and Detail-Oriented: While you are a people manager, you remain comfortable diving into technical details. You can contribute to architectural discussions, conduct code or infrastructure reviews, and guide incident post-mortems. Your breadth of technical expertise earns you respect from engineers, and you use it to make informed decisions and mentor the team
- Excellent Communicator & Collaborator: Effective at communicating vision and technical concepts to both engineers and executives. You foster strong cross-team collaboration, working well with product managers, other engineering teams, and possibly customer-facing teams (when coordinating on reliability or support issues). Your high EQ and leadership skills help you resolve conflicts, motivate your team, and build trust across the organization
- Startup Mindset: Thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment. You thrive in fast-moving environments, where speed, ownership, and adaptability matter just as much as technical rigor. You know how to balance urgency with thoughtfulness, and help teams stay focused without burning out. Previous startup experience is a plus – you understand the trade-offs and creative problem-solving needed in a high-growth company. You take ownership of outcomes (we act like Owners at Fieldguide) and continuously seek ways to improve engineering efficiency and quality
What the job involves
- As the Senior Engineering Manager for our Infrastructure Platform team, you will lead the group responsible for Fieldguide’s core platform infrastructure
- This team is accountable for the stability, resiliency, security, and performance of the underlying systems that power Fieldguide’s cloud platform You will report to the Head of Engineering and manage a team of 3–8 engineers (initially 3), including infrastructure, platform, and SRE engineers
- Your mission is to translate the high-level strategy provided by senior leadership into an actionable roadmap and concrete goals for your team, driving execution quarter-to-quarter
- This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role focused on engineering execution and team development – it is internally focused rather than involving external customer negotiations or sales responsibilities
- We operate a remote-first culture with the option to work from our San Francisco office, so you can be based anywhere (with occasional travel for team offsites or meetings as needed)
- You will work closely with other engineering teams and leadership to ensure our infrastructure scales reliably and our developers have a best-in-class experience building on the platform
- Lead the Infrastructure Platform Team: Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of infrastructure and SRE engineers. Foster a high-performance, inclusive team culture that embodies Fieldguide’s values and produces excellent results
- Roadmap Planning & Execution: Own the quarterly planning for your team – prioritize and define a roadmap of infrastructure initiatives (spanning developer experience, system reliability, operational health, and scalability) in alignment with the overall engineering strategy. Drive the execution of these plans to meet goals and deliver on schedule
- Ensure Reliability and Scalability: Take responsibility for the reliability, availability, and performance of Fieldguide’s platform. Oversee efforts to harden our systems for high uptime and fault tolerance (e.g. improving redundancy, latency, and incident response processes) to support our growing customer base
- Improve Developer Experience: Champion initiatives that make our developers more effective. This includes evolving our CI/CD pipelines, build/test infrastructure, and internal developer tools to streamline workflows and reduce friction in shipping code
- Drive Key Infrastructure Initiatives: Lead major technical projects that prepare our platform for the next level of scale. Examples include coordinating multi-region deployments (to support global availability), enhancing observability/telemetry across services, and implementing security and compliance measures in the platform. You will break down these large projects into actionable tasks, assign ownership, and guide the team through design, implementation, and rollout
- Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Leverage your deep infrastructure expertise to make high-level technical decisions and ensure engineering excellence. You will review architecture and designs, help troubleshoot complex issues, and maintain standards for code quality and operational best practices. Collaborate cross-functionally with application engineering teams, product managers, and QA to ensure platform improvements align with product needs and integrate smoothly
- Translate Strategy into Action: Work closely with the Head of Engineering and other leaders to understand Fieldguide’s platform strategy and OKRs. Translate those into team-level plans and clearly communicate direction, priorities, and progress to stakeholders. Adjust plans as needed based on feedback and changing requirements, keeping the team focused on the most impactful work
Our take
Fieldguide offers a cloud-native collaboration and automation platform for accounting and advisory practices. The idea is to make workflow and collaboration more streamlined, and automate parts of it altogether, for teams working on cybersecurity, risk, and ESG audits.
Fieldguide has launched with a focus on three high-demand and high-growth areas of business. With cybersecurity and ESG in particular seeing increased corporate investment, thanks to the steep costs of error or regulatory non-compliance, demand for tech that can help manage this influx of auditing work is likely to grow fast. Indeed, Fieldguide has received an impressive funding injection which will see the company looking to expand the kinds of audit their product applies to, as well as aggressively growing their team.
Fieldguide has already netted some key audit and advisory firms as clients and a substantial Series B funding round, suggesting that the young company is onto something good. Internal productivity tools are seeing a boom across multiple industries, with automation also seeing a significant uptake for enterprise businesses. If Fieldguide can successfully manage its scale-up, it could become an important software player.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $47.2m
Company benefits
- Health
- Dental
- PTO
Company HQ
Eureka Valley, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Szymansky
(CTO)Previously co-founded live video streaming platform Vivo, before moving on to work in software development at Fireman Creative. Subsequently held various high level positions, including CTO at JazzHR, and VP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Atrium.
Jin Chang
(CEO)Originally a Management Consultant at EY, before co-founding blockchain aggregation API company, Bitbutter. Moved on to serve as Chief of Staff at Atrium.
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