Fieldguide

Infrastructure Engineer

Fieldguide

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $230,000 per year

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain core platform infrastructure to support scalable, reliable, and secure services across engineering teams.
  • Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, reliable environments.
  • Collaborate with software and data engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure and platform tooling that accelerates development workflows.
  • Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through metrics, logging, and alerting frameworks (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch).
  • Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by implementing best practices for identity management, network segmentation, secrets handling, and vulnerability management.
  • Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
  • Mentor junior engineers on infrastructure fundamentals and best practices.
  • Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring high availability and resilience of critical systems.
  • Document infrastructure design, architecture decisions, and operational procedures for transparency and team enablement.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.
  • Skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using Terraform and the AWS CLI / API.
  • Proficient in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of data systems, including both SQL and NoSQL.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)
  • Comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.
  • Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills and capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
  • Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
  • Flexible work schedules
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformAWS servicesAWS CLISQLNoSQLmonitoringalertinglog aggregationincident response
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationtime managementprioritizationleadershiptransparency
Certifications
SOC 2PCI-DSSHIPAA