# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Fieldguide](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fieldguide)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $185k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Datadog, Aws Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-02-27

> Senior Infrastructure Engineer owns critical infrastructure decisions, builds scalable platforms using AWS and Terraform, ensures security/compliance, and mentors teams. Requires 5+ years AWS experience and expertise in monitoring tools like Datadog.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- 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.
- Own major architectural decisions and long-term technical direction for Fieldguide’s infrastructure.
- Build reusable platforms, abstractions, and AI-enabled tooling that raise the baseline for engineering teams.
- 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.
- Lead incident response and postmortem processes, driving root cause analysis and structural long-term improvements.
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers and tech leads, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
- 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.

## Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of hands-on experience constructing complex cloud solutions using multiple AWS services.
- You are skilled in provisioning and configuring cloud services using **Terraform** and the **AWS CLI / API**.
- You have proficiency in designing effective monitoring/alerting and log aggregation solutions using tools like **Datadog** and **AWS CloudWatch** (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
- You have a solid understanding of data systems, including both **SQL** and **NoSQL**.
- You have experience in developing and maintaining software in security and regulatory compliance environments (**SOC 2**, **PCI-DSS**, **HIPAA**, etc.)
- You are comfortable participating in on-call support to ensure 24/7 availability of services.
- You have a passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers.
- You have excellent communication and organizational skills and are capable of managing multiple competing priorities.
- You have deep expertise designing systems and processes that make engineering teams measurably faster and more effective.
- You can clearly communicate technical strategy to managers and executives.

## Bonus Points
- You have experience with **GraphQL** as a database front-end API.
- You have experience with database system architecture (e.g., **Postgres**) and observability, to help us increase our overall database performance.
- You have experience both working with AI, and with providing it as a tool for engineers and our internal applications to utilize.
- You have experience working through and designing for security audits (e.g., **SOC2**, **PCI**, etc.)

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