Platform Engineer (Remote)

Job Overview

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

About PermitFlow

PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence. We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.