Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

The role

You will lead a team of ten engineers to build the foundational platform, core services, APIs, and developer tooling. You will set the platform roadmap and work with product, design, AI, and infrastructure leaders.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team
• Set the platform vision and roadmap
• Own the architecture strategy for SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments
• Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders
• Drive cross-team initiatives to improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency
• Establish standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns
• Oversee the internal developer platform, including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities
• Own the team's operational health including reliability targets, incident response, and on-call
• Define team-level success metrics and communicate progress to executive leadership

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years managing engineers, ideally including managers or multiple teams
• Significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers
• Experience setting technical strategy and roadmap across multiple teams
• Fluency with modern cloud platforms
• Kubernetes
• Distributed systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• AWS preferred
• Experience leading teams that build platforms for AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces
• Experience with platforms supporting both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments
• Experience as a founding or early platform leader at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Flexible time off and work schedules
• Technology reimbursements
• 401(k) plan
• Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
• Wellness benefits starting on your first day

About the company

Fieldguide builds software for assurance and audit practitioners in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. The company is based in San Francisco and is backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more.