Principal Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Infrastructure

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

PermitFlow is seeking a principal platform engineer to shape the platform those AI agents run on and to ensure robust, scalable infrastructure that connects filings, project data and approvals. You will stay hands-on in product code while guiding tech direction.

This role offers exposure to orchestration, data pipelines and observability in production, with responsibilities across reliability, tradeoffs, and cross‑team collaboration to ship practical, resilient AI-powered services.

Qualifications

• Strong backend and infrastructure experience.
• Experience with data pipelines and observability.
• Ability to design scalable platform and work across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for shared infrastructure and services.
• Hands-on contribution to product code and platform components.
• Own services that agents call, monitor failures, and tighten feedback loops.

Skills

Backend infrastructure

System design at scale

Observability & reliability

Hands-on AI systems

Job description

PermitFlow is seeking a principal platform engineer to shape the platform those AI agents run on and to ensure robust, scalable infrastructure that connects filings, project data and approvals. You will stay hands-on in product code while guiding tech direction.

This role offers exposure to orchestration, data pipelines and observability in production, with responsibilities across reliability, tradeoffs, and cross‑team collaboration to ship practical, resilient AI-powered services.