Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
FieldGuide · San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)
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**Senior Engineering Manager, Platform — Fieldguide** **About Fieldguide** Fieldguide is building 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 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 for mission-critical work. **Role Overview** As a **Senior Engineering Manager, Platform**, you’ll lead the team that builds the foundational platform powering Fieldguide: **core services, APIs, shared primitives, and developer tooling** that make it fast, safe, and consistent to deliver new capabilities. Every product surface and AI agent at Fieldguide is built on this platform. You’ll lead **10 engineers** (including **Senior and Staff ICs**), set the **platform roadmap**, and partner with **product, design, AI, and infrastructure** leaders to decide where platform investment creates the most leverage. You’ll report to our **Senior Director of Platform Engineering**. The engineering hub is in **San Francisco**. This role is open to **remote candidates anywhere in the US**; Bay Area employees will work in a **hybrid** setting. --- **What You’ll Own** - Build, lead, and grow a high-performing **platform engineering team** (hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development). - Set the **platform vision and roadmap**, prioritizing investments across core services, shared primitives, and internal developer tooling. - Own **architecture strategy** for delivering product capabilities across **SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud** environments. - Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments, including **build vs. leave-to-product vs. buy** tradeoffs. - Drive cross-team initiatives that improve **product velocity, system reliability, and consistency**. - Establish standards for **service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns**, and ensure teams adopt them. - Oversee the **internal developer platform**, including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities. - Own operational health: **reliability targets, incident response, on-call, and delivery predictability**. - Define team-level success metrics and communicate progress/tradeoffs to **executive leadership**. --- **Who You Are** - **10+ years** of software engineering experience, with **3+ years** managing engineers (ideally managers or multiple teams). - Significant experience building **product-facing platforms** or foundational application services; strong technical depth to review designs and challenge tradeoffs. - Proven track record of **hiring, developing, and retaining** strong engineers; ability to raise the bar through coaching and performance management. - Strong product instincts and experience shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes. - Experience setting technical strategy/roadmap across multiple teams and driving alignment with product, design, and executives. - Fluency with modern cloud platforms (**AWS preferred**), **Kubernetes**, and **distributed systems**. - Excellent judgment on what to build into the platfo
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