Head of Platform Engineering — Enterprise AI Platform Leader

Fieldguide; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership stake

Flexible PTO

401k

Wellness benefits

Work-from-home reimbursement

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Fieldguide is building the AI platform for audit and advisory firms. As Head of Platform Engineering, you will own the systems powering Fieldguide’s product, agents, and enterprise deployments.

You will lead the Platform org across App Platform, Agentic Engineering, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering leadership, platform product thinking, and operational rigor.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or product-platform teams through growth where multiple product teams depend on shared systems.
• Ability to reason across APIs, authorization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and AI runtime.
• Experience building teams with TLs or managers who own domains, roadmaps, and operational quality.
• Judgment on build-versus-buy, vendor dependencies, cloud services, and internal tools.
• Experience turning platform work into user-facing leverage, including API adoption and self-service paths.
• Comfort partnering with GTM teams on enterprise requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Platform org that spans infrastructure, application platform, agentic engineering, and site reliability.
• Own the deployable infrastructure surface, including SaaS regions in multiple geographies and private deployments.
• Build operating models for pillar roadmaps, service ownership, production readiness, and platform scorecards.
• Make API parity part of Fieldguide ship workflows for audit firm integration.
• Establish reliability practice across platform services with SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and on-call health.
• Build internal agentic engineering platform powering Fieldguide EPD work.
• Partner with Product, Security/Compliance, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success on deployments and cost visibility.

Skills

Platform leadership

Infrastructure leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud expertise

API design

SRE practices

Team coaching

Technical leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL / managed Postgres

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud cost attribution

Job description

Fieldguide is building the AI platform for audit and advisory firms. As Head of Platform Engineering, you will own the systems powering Fieldguide’s product, agents, and enterprise deployments.

You will lead the Platform org across App Platform, Agentic Engineering, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering leadership, platform product thinking, and operational rigor.