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FieldguideSenior Engineering Manager, Platform
Fieldguide builds software to automate and streamline audit and assurance work for cybersecurity, privacy, and financial practitioners. The company is backed by prominent investors and trusted…
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Fieldguide builds software to automate and streamline audit and assurance work for cybersecurity, privacy, and financial practitioners. The company is backed by prominent investors and trusted by top accounting firms. The organization is currently seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead a team of ten engineers building foundational core services, developer tooling, and APIs. This position is open to remote candidates across the United States, with a hybrid setup…
Job Description
Fieldguide builds software to automate and streamline audit and assurance work for cybersecurity, privacy, and financial practitioners. The company is backed by prominent investors and trusted by top accounting firms.
The organization is currently seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead a team of ten engineers building foundational core services, developer tooling, and APIs. This position is open to remote candidates across the United States, with a hybrid setup for those based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the engineering hub is located. The individual will report to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering.
This role suits an engineering leader with deep experience in platform architecture who can set technical strategies, guide teams through architectural decisions for SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments, and collaborate closely with product, design, and AI engineering leaders.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, onboard, coach, and manage the performance and career development of a platform engineering team
- Establish the platform vision, roadmap, and prioritization of investments across core services, shared primitives, and internal developer tools
- Define the architecture strategy for product capabilities across SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments
- Collaborate with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments
- Drive cross-team initiatives to enhance product velocity, system reliability, and consistency
- Set standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns
- Oversee deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities within the internal developer platform
- Manage operational health, including reliability targets, incident response, on-call duties, and delivery predictability
- Define success metrics and communicate progress and tradeoffs to executive leadership
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years managing engineers, including experience managing managers or multiple teams
- Significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services with technical depth for design reviews
- Track record of hiring, retaining, and developing strong engineers through coaching and performance management
- History of shipping platform capabilities that delivered customer outcomes and aligning technical strategy across multiple teams
- Fluency with modern cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
Qualifications
- Experience leading teams that build platforms for AI-native products such as agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces
- Experience with platforms supporting both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments
- Background as a founding or early platform leader at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits beginning on the first day
- Flexible time off and work schedules
- Technology reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the United States
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this role is open to remote candidates located anywhere in the United States, though employees based in the Bay Area will work in a hybrid setting.
What is the employment type?
The posting specifies that this is a full-time position.
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Who will this role report to?
This position reports to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering.
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