Platform Engineer, Fieldguide

• We are on the lookout for an exceptional engineer to join our tight-knit Platform team
• 3+ years of total experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles
• Experience with high-uptime environments and IaC principles
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience with container runtime architectures such as Kubernetes
• Experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency with at least one programming language, preferably TypeScript, Python, or Go
• 1+ year in a startup environment or a desire to work at an earlier-stage startup

Desirable

• The Platform Engineering team at Fieldguide is responsible for the stability, resiliency, and performance of the underlying infrastructure and application services that power the Fieldguide cloud platform
• In this role, you will be a key technical contributor to our small but mighty Platform team working directly alongside the application pillar of Platform to ensure world-class scalability and reliability of our products
• Fieldguide’s platform is primarily composed of TypeScript microservices and serverless functions
• We manage our own Kubernetes clustersm, which run on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we leverage Helm, GitHub actions, and Terraform to do most of our heavy lifting
• Serve as a steward of our platform by designing, implementing, and testing our infrastructure to meet our application feature and scalability goals
• Foster a learning culture within the team by conducting code reviews, root cause analysis, and continuous learning exercises
• Serve as a subject matter expert on our infrastructure to other teams seeking to build their services upon it
• Coordinate closely with the Application pillar in our Platform team as we tackle major initiatives like multi-region deployments and telemetry improvements