Platform Engineer

About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

About the role

🚀 About PermitFlow

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PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). Preference for NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

✅ What You’ll Do

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As a Platform Engineer, you’ll join our growing infrastructure team in building, scaling, and fine-tuning the systems that keep our services running smoothly. You’ll help architect the backbone of our platform, focusing on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement. While your primary responsibility will be infrastructure, coding and problem-solving across the stack are core parts of the role. As a fast-growing startup, we all roll up our sleeves where needed, so flexibility and a collaborative spirit are key.

• Architect, design, and implement secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions to support a rapidly growing product.
• Design and implement backend and frontend services, APIs, and data pipelines to support AI-driven workflows.
• Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to testing and production deployment.
• Develop and maintain automation through Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, optimize, and scale our cloud infrastructure for performance and reliability.
• Establish and enforce best practices for observability, logging, and alerting.
• Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting complex issues and driving postmortem learning and improvements.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to improve developer velocity while balancing reliability, security, and cost.

🙌 What We’re Looking For

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• 5+ years of experience in Platform, Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or similar roles.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes a plus).
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and modern infrastructure automation tools.
• Coding and scripting proficiency (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident management best practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment, where adaptability and ownership are essential.

💙 Benefits

• 📈 Equity packages
• 💰 Competitive Salary
• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
• 💻 Company issued laptop
• 🍽️ Lunch & Dinner provided via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen
• 🚍 Commuter benefits
• 🎤 Team building events
• 🌴 Unlimited PTO