Staff Software Engineer, App Platform

Fieldguide fieldguide.io Open

Remote San Francisco Full-time Senior Engineering Leadership

At a glance

Senior Engineering Leadership role at Fieldguide. Remote, United States · full-time · $210,000–$265,000 base.

SalaryStated by Fieldguide

$210,000 – $265,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

This role, from FieldguideOur estimate for the market: $222,268–$280,375Median $250,000

The range includes the market median of $250,000 for senior engineering leadership roles in San Francisco, compared against the San Francisco market.

Worked out from 162 postings that stated pay, median $250,000. Last updated Nov 13, 2026.

RoleEngineering Leadership

SenioritySenior

LocationSan Francisco

WorkplaceRemote

EmploymentFull-time

Base pay$210,000–$265,000

PostedMay 16, 2026

Role brief

remoteroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Shape core platform services, APIs and shared components that product features and AI agents rely on
Build reusable platform capabilities that help product and AI engineers tackle difficult problems faster
Set the design for delivering features across SaaS, single-customer enterprise and government cloud environments
Work with product, design and AI leads to turn customer needs into platform priorities
Set service, data-modeling and integration standards, evolve developer tooling, and mentor engineers across teams

What you bring

At least ten years in software engineering, including substantial work on product-facing platforms or core application services
A record of shipping platform work that led to meaningful customer results, with strong product judgment
Deep experience designing APIs, services and shared systems for other engineers to build upon
Strong command of cloud platforms, Kubernetes and distributed systems; AWS is preferred
You can lead technical work across teams, review complex code, and align engineering, product and design

Who this fits

This suits a senior individual contributor who leads through technical direction across teams and mentors other engineers. The role is open to U.S.-based remote candidates; Bay Area employees work in a hybrid setting, and twice-yearly in-person offsites take place across the U.S.

From the employer

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners—specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We're based in San Francisco, CA, and built remote-first. We're backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.

About the Role

As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fieldguide, you will design and build the foundational platform that powers Fieldguide, including core platform services and tooling that make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities to customers. This is the platform on which every product surface and AI agent at Fieldguide is built.

You will operate as a technical leader across teams, defining standards and reducing complexity for product, AI, and infrastructure engineers. Your work will directly shape how Fieldguide can ship quickly for our largest enterprise customers while keeping our systems reliable and scalable.

Our engineering hub is located in San Francisco. This role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US; Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.

What You’ll Own

Lead the design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services, including the foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives that every product surface and agent depends on
Build platform capabilities that compound the leverage of product and AI engineers, turning hard problems into reusable building blocks
Define the architecture for how new product capabilities get delivered across our SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments
Partner directly with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to understand customer needs and translate them into platform investments
Drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency across the application
Own the standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns used across Fieldguide
Maintain and evolve the internal developer platform that supports the team, including deployment tooling, and agentic engineering capabilities
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the org and raise the bar for platform engineering at Fieldguide

Who You Are

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 that other engineers build on top of
Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams without owning them directly
Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy
Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute to and review complex codebases
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
High agency and a bias toward owning problems end-to-end

Bonus Points

Experience building platforms that power AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces
Experience designing platforms that support both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments
Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company